RE: IRC spying to increase

["Alex Schultz" <aschultz () echo-inc com>]

You can hack the ircd to allow an invisible join that allows certain
people to be in a channel, yet not visible.  I first saw this back in
like 1997 or 98, so it's very possible.  It just requires a special IRCD
and alittle c/c++ skill. Basically they just created a mode you could
assign yourself if you were an Oper and the ircd wouldn't show you in a
channel.

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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] IRC spying to increase

Has anyone heard of "LeechX" its supposed to be a hacked up BitchX
client that ties into a few sniffers that were installed on various
efnet boxen.

A few years ago I had an individual named "Basharteg" read me a few
lines from various private chanels as well as some of my own personal
conversations. He claimed this was done via "LeechX". Obviouslty he
could been sniffing from several locations but hell who knows "LeechX" 
could be real I suppose.

-KF


Burnes, James wrote:
> Already been done, and then some...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Ron 
> DuFresne
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:22 PM
> To: Full Disclosure
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] IRC spying to increase
>
>
> October 11, Associated Press - U.S. funds chat-room surveillance
study.
> The
> U.S. government is funding a yearlong study on chat room surveillance 
> under an anti-terrorism program. A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
> computer science professor hopes to develop mathematical models that 
> can uncover structure within the scattershot traffic of online public 
> forums.
> Professor
> Bulent Yener will use mathematical models in search of patterns in the

> chatter. Downloading data from selected chat rooms, Yener will track 
> the times that messages were sent, creating a statistical profile of 
> the traffic. "For us, the challenge is to be able to determine, 
> without reading the messages, who is talking to whom," Yener said. The

> $157,673 grant comes from the National Science Foundation's Approaches

> to Combat Terrorism program. It was selected in coordination with the 
> nation's intelligence agencies. Source:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25272-2004Oct11.html
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne

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