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Hacking IRC ( YAY, the things you always wanted to know)

FAQ titles:
What is a bot?
What is a clone?
How do you nick collide and what is it?
How do you hack ops in a channel?
What are personal modes?
What do personal modes do?
Can I hack IRC 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 presence 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?

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 collide clone 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.  What you do is pick a
word that if typed onto the screen, (you edit the wordkick section of the remote tools)
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.



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.

Parameters: <nickname> [<+ / ->< i w s o>]   The user MODEs are typically changes which affect
either how the client is seen by others or what 'extra' messages the client is sent.
A user MODE command may only be accepted if both the sender of the   message and the nickname
given as a parameter are both the same.   The available modes are as follows:
    i - marks a users as invisible;
    s - marks a user for receipt of server notices;
    w - user receives wallops (messages from IRC ops to all other ops);
    o - operator flag (available to IRC ops only)
          Additional modes may be available later on.

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.
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.
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.

What is a link looker?

A link looker searches the servers links to find servers that have split.  This is a very helpful
tool when it comes to hacking the IRC.  There is a link looker available in Killer.