[12800] in Cypherpunks
Re: Internet Relay Cha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Lister)
Sun May 1 07:42:11 1994
From: Justin Lister <ruf@osiris.cs.uow.edu.au>
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 21:36:37 +1000 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9404261632.AA10453@toad.com> from "Darren Reed" at Apr 27, 94 02:32:38 am
> >
> > If you did hack your own IRC server, would it be possible to eavesdrop
> > on channels like #warez, without anyone knowing, and without fear of being
> > kicked off? It seems to me that this would be the true hacker's approach
> > if it were possible.
> >
> > Hal
> Yes.
> But, there is a catch...you only get traffic for #warez if your server is
> meant to see it...ie someone on your server is on that channel or your
> server forms part of the spanning tree for that channel. It's not
> difficult, but if you get caught..*ouch*
You wouldn't know anything about this though ? B)
> av
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