Re: Internet Relay Chat

welllllllll all, It really depends on what you do.
Hacking IRC can be determined as hacking OPS in a channel... which I can see
NO legal frontier in which it crosses. Its more of a battle of wits.
Something as simple as finding a server disconnected from the net....making
that channel there...and waiting for it to rejoin the net was used to hack
OPS on a channel. Now.. that can be something done purely by accident..not
realizing the server isnt fully hooked up at the time.
 Regards,
              Adam

Everything you described is an abuse of administration mistakes and has
nothing to do with hacking (?) an irc/ircd. There are numerous patches
to prevent it.
As for "hacking irc" -- it is pretty indefinete what could it be...
Intruding to machine which is running an irc server isn't something new --
it is just a machine with an ircd running. Exploiting administration to hack
mistakes isn't anything new either -- there's lot's of idiotss abusing server's
code bugs, to say, +k bug to fight each other.
Anyhow, I do not thing this discussion has any future, as long as there's
nothing to discuss.

-mishania,

irc.ru administrator.