[arch-general] IRC Spammer / Impersonator
This morning I was informed by a TU via Private Message on IRC that there were spammer impersonating me. He first ask what happened last night and as I had no idea what he was talking about this was when I first discovered what happened. There are some wonderful people (for lack of a nicer term) who think its funny to impersonate me and spam the channel. My hostname is almost always adsl-75-33-32-137.dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net very rarely do I connect to IRC using a different net connection (usually just ssh into my home box). The ip is dynamic so it will change, but it should match with mezoko.net I think these spammers are ajnewbold and impl. They helped me out with some php coding about a year ago. They were nice people, but they slowly started pull crap on me and I didn't put up with so I think this their revenge. **Ajnewbold and impl (he was under the alias of "hary" something, I don't remember) spammed the channel about a week ago so I'm not sure if they'll stop, hence the reason for this posting. So basically I want to clear up a few things 1. The spammers last night were not me 2. If username mezoko does not have a host name similar to dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net there is a good chance it is not me 3. To any TU/OP/Dev please do not ban my user name from IRC, please ban the hostname if the problem arises again. Thank you all for your understanding, -Mezoko
On Dec 27, 2007 7:23 PM, Matthew <mezoko@mezoko.net> wrote:
2. If username mezoko does not have a host name similar to dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net there is a good chance it is not me
I think you can register your nick and also forbid its unauthenticated use via some IRC commands. Read the freenode help pages for that. -- Branko
2007/12/27, Branko Vukelic <bg.branko@gmail.com>:
I think you can register your nick and also forbid its unauthenticated use via some IRC commands. Read the freenode help pages for that.
As far as I know, nickserv set kill is disabled on freenode network. He can register the nick and he can ghost people who are using the nick while he's offline. The only way to keep others from using your nickname is by setting up a bouncer or another type of persistent connection. -- Giovanni Scafora Arch Linux Trusted User (voidnull) http://www.archlinux.org linuxmania@gmail.com
Giovanni Scafora wrote:
2007/12/27, Branko Vukelic <bg.branko@gmail.com>:
I think you can register your nick and also forbid its unauthenticated use via some IRC commands. Read the freenode help pages for that.
As far as I know, nickserv set kill is disabled on freenode network. He can register the nick and he can ghost people who are using the nick while he's offline. The only way to keep others from using your nickname is by setting up a bouncer or another type of persistent connection.
According to a guy in #freenode he said that kill is disabled. What would be a bouncer I tried psybnc but that didn't work well only accepted my password I set for it half of the time.
Matthew wrote:
Giovanni Scafora wrote:
2007/12/27, Branko Vukelic <bg.branko@gmail.com>:
I think you can register your nick and also forbid its unauthenticated use via some IRC commands. Read the freenode help pages for that.
As far as I know, nickserv set kill is disabled on freenode network. He can register the nick and he can ghost people who are using the nick while he's offline. The only way to keep others from using your nickname is by setting up a bouncer or another type of persistent connection.
According to a guy in #freenode he said that kill is disabled.
What would be a bouncer I tried psybnc but that didn't work well only accepted my password I set for it half of the time.
I have setup BIP which from my understanding is a irc proxy / bouncer. I have both mezoko and mezokoX setup and running so there should be no spammers on those two user names. Thanks again for everyone's understanding!
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Branko Vukelic
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Giovanni Scafora
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Matthew