full-disclosure - Why is IRC still around?

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From: RBowes at gov.mb.ca (Bowes, Ronald (EST))
Subject: Why is IRC still around?

If you DID manage to take away IRC, they'd find another way to manage their
bots.  Perhaps they'd all migrate their DDoS nets to Battle.net. </jokes>

Ron Bowes
Information Protection Centre
Government Of Manitoba

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny [mailto:nocmonkey@...il.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:53 PM
To: Bowes, Ronald (EST)
Cc: Mailing List - Full-Disclosure
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why is IRC still around?

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:47:36 -0600, Bowes, Ronald (EST)
<rbowes@....mb.ca> wrote:
> How exactly do you propose to accomplish this?  IRC is an open protocol
and
> there are many open clients and open servers which can run on any port,
and
> run encrypted with SSL.
> 
> So do you intend to scan every computer on the Internet on port 6667, and
> shut down every server found running, the move on to random ports that
> zombies probably use, and start attacking sites that provide open source
> clients that use an open protocol?
> 
> Your suggestion makes no sense, and it's something that's impossible to
> implement.  Why not just make knives illegal?  I mean, they're frequently
> used as a weapon, right?

Yah, you are right. I just needed to rant when I see all these
trojan's written to call home (to an IRC channel) and DoS attacks
coordinated via IRC to control unpatched anti-virus-less Windows PC
zombies.

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