Re: IRC policies

["Hull, Dave" <dphull () KU EDU>]

In my past life working in a security office, the Snort signatures that
monitor nick changes to a great job of tipping off machines that are
bots. Normal users don't request nick changes as rapidly as bots. If
you're wanting to monitor IRC or clamp down on it, pay particular
attention and tune well your Snort or other IDS/IPS rules that watch for
nick changes.

YMMV.

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Dave Hull, CISSP, CHFI
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KU School of Architecture & Urban Planning
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