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
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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 i nsulted 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 yo u
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 wil l 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 sh ell
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 fo r 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 favor ite is Lice -
again available publically via ftpFTP. 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 intellige nce
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 nic k. 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 mov e 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 re gular (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 ch annel 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 ha ve 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 anyti me 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 h ope 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 getti ng 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.