Full Disclosure: Re: IRC spying to increase

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Has anyone heard of "LeechX" its supposed to be a hacked up BitchX 
client that ties into a few sniffers that were installed on various 
efnet boxen.
A few years ago I had an individual named "Basharteg" read me a few 
lines from various private chanels as well as some of my own personal 
conversations. He claimed this was done via "LeechX". Obviouslty he 
could been sniffing from several locations but hell who knows "LeechX" 
could be real I suppose.
-KF


Burnes, James wrote:
> Already been done, and then some...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Ron
> DuFresne
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:22 PM
> To: Full Disclosure
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] IRC spying to increase
>
>
> October 11, Associated Press - U.S. funds chat-room surveillance study.
> The
> U.S. government is funding a yearlong study on chat room surveillance
> under
> an anti-terrorism program. A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer
> science professor hopes to develop mathematical models that can uncover
> structure within the scattershot traffic of online public forums.
> Professor
> Bulent Yener will use mathematical models in search of patterns in the
> chatter. Downloading data from selected chat rooms, Yener will track the
> times that messages were sent, creating a statistical profile of the
> traffic. "For us, the challenge is to be able to determine, without
> reading
> the messages, who is talking to whom," Yener said. The $157,673 grant
> comes
> from the National Science Foundation's Approaches to Combat Terrorism
> program. It was selected in coordination with the nation's intelligence
> agencies. Source:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25272-2004Oct11.html
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
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