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Submitted by: Weasel

Here is a something about hacking irc. If you like it put it if not then
don't. I think you'll like it though.Good page by the way. Very nice.
Nice layout and everything. i think you should try to make a listing of
good bbs' and hacking programs. If you have already done so. Sorry, I
must have missed them. Good JOb.
                                                                                                                                Weas



 Hacking IRC - The Definitive Guide

Welcome to Hacking IRC- The Definitive Guide. The purpose of this page
if
you have not already guessed is to provide what I consider optimal
methodology for hacking IRC channels. In addition, I provide some of the
better channels to hack as well as fun things to do while "owning a
channel."

Contents

   * Section 1-- Why Hack IRC?

   * Section 2--Requisite Tools

   * Section 3--What It Takes To Gain Control

   * Section 4--Link Looker(LL)

   * Section 5--Bots and Scripts

   * Section 6--Multi-Collide-Bot(MCB)

   * Section 7--Pre-Takeover Preparation

   * Section 8--Thing To Do ONce You "Own" the Channel

   * Section 9--Best Channels to Hack

[Image]  See me if you dare.

Section 1-Why Hack IRC?

I have often asked myself this question and the answers are varied and
numerous. One of the primary reasons for hacking IRC channels is due to
shear boredom. However a multitude of secondary reasons exist. Foremost
among these is the "that asshole op insulted me and/or kicked me and/or
banned me from the channel and I WANT REVENGE! This is a perfectly valid
excuse and boredom is not a necessary condition for implementing a
takeover
of an IRC channel. Nor is it a necessary condition that the reason you
were
insulted and/or kicked and/or banned was because in fact you are an
asshole.
All that is necessary is the will, the desire, a bit of skill, and of
course
the tools, which convieniently brings me to my next section.

Section 2-Requisite Tools

Any decent craftsmen needs a good set of tools and IRC hackers are no
exception. Without the proper tools you are dead in the water. All of
the
tools I describe below are available on public ftp sites. Before I
launch
into a discussion of what you will need, it is important to point out
that
if you are reading this document from your ppp/slip account you might
consider geeting a shell account if you are serious about hackin.
Hacking
IRC from a slip/ppp is much more complicated than doing so from a shell
account. There are those who will debate this but my experience has
shown
that mIRC or any of the other shareware IRC programs for the PC are no
match
for the speed and ease of use that an IRC shell script allows for. Thus
the
first tool required for hacking is an excellent irc shell script. If you
have already used IRC via a shell account and are still reading this
document you probably already have a script, which means you are well on
your way! As far as IRC shell scripts go, my personal favorite is Lice -
again available publically via FTP. Other scripts exist but the richness
and
power of the LICE commands I believe is second to none. Now while it is
possible to stop here and hack ops with just a script, you would
effectively
be putting yourself needlessly at a handicap. Therefore I reccommend
these
additional two tools: 1)Multi-Collide-Bot(MCB) and 2)LInk Looker(LL).
These
two C programs are your infantry and intelligence respectively. Again
both
are available via FTP and both are C programs and therefore need to be
compiled.

What It Takes To Gain Control

Without going into much detail clearly in order to effectively gain
control
of an IRC channel you must be the only op on your channel. If you are
still
clueless at this point, that is to say..You should be the only guy/gal
with
the @ in front of your nick. Once you have accomplished this, the
channel is
YOURS. Of course, that is until it is taken back or you decide to cease
hacking the channel. There are a number of ways to effectively gain ops
on a
channel and I will start with the simplest, then move to the
increasingly
more complex and finesse laden methods. By far and away the easiet
method of
gaining ops on a channel is to ask. You laugh eh? Well don't. Clearly as
hackers grow more prevelant on IRC the asking method becomes more and
more
unlikely to succeed. This is especially true of the bigger and well
established channels that have cultures onto themselves such as #Netsex,
#Teensex, #Windows95, #Bawel, #BDSM, #Blaklife, #Texas, #Hack, and any
of
the #Warez channels and a whole host of others. To gain ops in these
channels you must become a channel regular (i.e. one that hangs there
freqently and becomes a known and trusted member of the channel). Since
you
have neither the time nor the desire to make friends on the channel you
ultimately want to hack ops on, the asking method is the last thing you
want
to do on all but the smaller more ethereal channels, where you obviously
stand a better although still slim chance of gaining ops through a
request..
One important exception to the ask method is through the use of anonirc
which can be used on any channel but has severe limitations..more on
this
later. But of course you didn't come this far to be taught how to ask
for
ops..so lets proceed with the next lesson. Aside from asking there are
essentially two other ways of gaining ops. The first is through splits
and
the second is through anonirc. The following discussion mostly relates
to
splits but I will touch on anonirc briefly at the end. What is a split?
A
split occurs when the IRC server you are communicating on detaches from
the
rest of the net. If you are in a channel and by chance the only one on a
particular server that splits away, you will not only find yourself
alone on
the channel, but will now have the opportunity to gain ops. In order to
do
this you need to leave and rejoin the channel in which case you will now
find yourself with the little @ in front of your nick. When your server
rejoins you will have ops on the channel. Now you say, "Wow, thats easy
enough". Wrong. More likely than not, especially on a bigger channel a
number of things are likely to occur that will remove your op status.
Remember now the goal here is to keep ops so you can "Have Your Way".
Also
and more importantly, if you go into a channel and wait around hoping
the
server you are on splits, you might grow old and die first. Therefore,
what
is a wannbe IRC hacker to do? Link Looker is your answer.

Link Looker

Link Looker is a lovely little program that acts as your intelligence
officer. Without getting into the complexities or its mechanics, what it
effectively does is to give your a message anytime a particular server
detaches from the net and a message when it rejoins. Is the methodology
becoming clearer now? Yes! Thats right! When LL tells you that a server
is
split ,you connect to that server and join the channel you seek to hack
ops
on and hope nobody else split from the channel on that server(if this
occurs
you will not get ops).. If you find yourself alone, you will have ops
and a
fighting chance to gain control of the channel. It is important to
realize
that on many channels, just getting ops via a split and waiting for a
rejoin
is sufficient for gaining control of a channel. This is particularly
true of
small to medium sized channels as well as channels that are not
organized or
do not have Bots (more on this later), You simply wait for the server to
rejoin and once the channel is full you execute your mass deop command
(this
is on your script and the key element in getting rid of any other ops)
and
you will be the only op left. The channel is yours and go do your thing!
On
bigger more organized channels, things won't be so easy due to the
presense
of Bots as well as the presense of scripts used by existing human ops.

Bots and Scripts

Bigger more organized channels inevitably have a Bot(Robot) or multiple
Bots. Bots are essentially suped up scripts that attempt to maintain ops
on
a channel by their continuous presensce on channel. Additionally Bots
provide a number of channel maintenance tasks such as opping known
members
of the channel (either automatically or through password requests),
providing notes, and other information. Bots however are primarlly used
for
keeping ops on channel and depending on the type of Bot, defending
against
IRC hackers. Bots come in many varieties and types but the best of them
do a
good job of deoping spliters(thats you silly..you are opped on a split
and
when you rejoin the bot will deop you). Not only will Bots deop
you..many of
the human ops have scripts (such as LIce) that depending on the settings
employed will deop you as well. Now with the prevalance of powerful
scripts
on IRC a recent phenomona is the occurse of the desynch. This is a nasty
event that takes place when you rejoin from a split and your script
deops
the existing ops and the existing ops deop you at the same time. What
this
does is confuse the shit out of the servers and cause them to
desynchronize
from one another. This is to be avoided at all costs. When this happens
you
will effectively become desynched from a large portion of the net and
most
the channel, (depending on what server you rode in on). What's worse is
that
you will think you have ops( which you will for that server) but in
reality
you won't and you will be wasting your time. So how with the prevalence
of
super Bots and Human ops with scripts do you take the channel? Using MCB
of
course!

Multi-Collide-Bot(MCB)

Multi-Collide-Bot (MCB) is a powerful tool and your best friend. MCB is
an
even lovelier program that creates a clone of a nick you want to kill
(almsot always an op on the channel you are trying to hack) on a server
that
has split(yes the one Link Looker informed you of). Basically you feed
MCB
the name or names of the nick you want to kill and tell it what split
server
to establish those clones and upon rejoin.BAM/SMACK/KIILL!! Yes thats
right,
the target is thrown out of the channel(losing ops) and must
re-establish a
connection with a server to get back onto IRC and into the channel. So
yes,
you have figured it out. If you kill all of the ops on a channel and you
ride in on a split you will be the only op in the channel. Let me assure
you
there is nothing like seeing the nick kill messages of the ops you have
targeted as you ride in on the split.

Pre-Takeover Preparation

There are a number of things you can do before you attempt to take over
an
IRC Channel to make things easier and be as well prepared as you can
possibly be. 1)Pre-Attack Observation. Plain and simple you must know
who
you are attacking. One of the most important things you can do as you
sit
and observe the channel is to determine which bots and/or human ops are
deopping on rejoins. These are the nicks you want to target first. You
will
fail if you don't kill these nicks and rejoin because you are likely to
cause a desynch(discussed above). However, it is essential to make sure
you
kill all of the ops. Leaving just one op alive means you have lost that
battle and must now regroup and wait for another split. It is important
to
watch out for ops changing their nicks if they detect a split. If they
do
this, the mcb you tagged with their nick will be useless to you. The way
I
prevent this is to be on both sides of the split. That is to be opped in
the
channel on the split server and have a clone in the channel on the other
side of the split monitoring the goings on, telling you if ops change
nicks
or new people are opped (in which case you create a new mcb with their
name
on it).

Things To Do Once You "Own" the Channel

Once you own the channel, the decision is clearly yours on how you want
to
proceed and needless to say the number of things you can do is endless.
However, let me share with you a number of time tested ideas that are
sure
to give you a thrill not to mention totally piss of the channel you have
now
hacked. The first thing you can do is to taunt the former ops of the
channel. That is to say, they will probably be cursing you and telling
you
what a loser you are for hacking the channel. They will say things like
"get
a life, do something more productive". Remember don't take it
personally.
You have to keep in mind that it is the formers ops who in fact are the
ones
who need to get a life, considering the only power they have or make
that
had (if you successfully hacked the channel) was to have ops in the
first
place. So you can continue to taunt and if they get relay billegerent
you
can kick them off the channel. They will undoubtedly come back within a
second or two and then you can say something like, "Now, now I am in
control
of the channel and I will not tolerate such language and behavior. If
you
are unable to control yourself I will be forced to ban you." Now this is
sure to get some violent response from the former op in which case you
subsequently kick and ban them and move onto the next person. Another
thing
I like to do is to word ban. This is particularly easy if you have LICE.
What you do is pick a word that if typed onto the screen by any of the
channel members, will automatically result in you kicking them off the
channel with the reason that word is banned. This method is particularly
good in channels like #teensex where people are always saying the word
sex,
male, female, teen, age, etc. All you do is ban those words and watch
the
kicks begin to fly. Another thing I like to do is moderate the channel.
What
this does with the /mode +m command is to make it such that nobody on
channel can speak. This is a particularly good thing to do when many of
the
channel members are getting out of hand and you want to make some sort
of
statement without anybody interrupting you. Yes all eyes will be trained
on
you. If you want to be really mean, when you are finished hacking the
channel, you can leave it moderated in which case nobody will be able to
speak and the channel is effectively shut down. Other things to do which
are
nasty as well are to kick everybody out of the channel and make it
invite
only, effectively shutting it down as well. Think of your own creative
things to do. I would love to hear about them..email me..if they are
particularly interesting I will include them in this page with an
attribution if you like.