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 lik ely 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 chan ging 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 ment ion 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 thi ngs 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 su ccessfully 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 li ke, "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 subse quently 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 r esult 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 getti ng 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 w ill 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.

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