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Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by unixhero »

jtakkala wrote: post #38

A long time ago parsing Echelog logs was how I was able to monitor the IRC activity of an attacker at a company I used to work at. I didn't normally sit on these channels myself, but Echelog enabled me to look back and collect data on the various handles that this person operated under. There were 20-something handles they used over approximately a 6 month period of monitoring. I was always able to find a small piece…

For the record, careful with doing private investigations. It might look good on Netflix, but can turn sour real fast.

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by Geeflow »

jdsully wrote: post #41

I don't really use IRC anymore but at the time I remember really hating loggers. Chats were informal and I really didn't like them showing up in google results and elsewhere. Not everything needs to be saved.

I would have shared the same sentiment.

I never came across a logger, though, when I was still active on IRC. Are loggers a more recent (as in this millenium) development?

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by rasengan »

admax88q wrote: post #48
rasengan wrote: post #11

I just wanted to take a moment and share with the HN community that IRC is definitely very alive and kicking! There are great channels for thousands of amazing projects, communities and teams spread across so many great IRC Networks, from Freenode [1] to OFTC [2], to Rizon [3], to DALnet [4], to tildeverse [5], Snoonet [6], Quakenet [7], EFnet [8], IRCnet [9] among other networks [10]. IRC is no longer difficult to u…

www.dal.net not dal.net

Fixed, thank you!

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by rasengan »

efdee wrote: post #44
rasengan wrote: post #11

I just wanted to take a moment and share with the HN community that IRC is definitely very alive and kicking! There are great channels for thousands of amazing projects, communities and teams spread across so many great IRC Networks, from Freenode [1] to OFTC [2], to Rizon [3], to DALnet [4], to tildeverse [5], Snoonet [6], Quakenet [7], EFnet [8], IRCnet [9] among other networks [10]. IRC is no longer difficult to u…

No IRCnet or EFnet mention? I don't want to be a part of this.

Agreed and has been included now, I apologize for that! Please take part in this! IRC is community.

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

#56

Post by cutemonster »

unixhero wrote: post #51
jtakkala wrote: post #38

A long time ago parsing Echelog logs was how I was able to monitor the IRC activity of an attacker at a company I used to work at. I didn't normally sit on these channels myself, but Echelog enabled me to look back and collect data on the various handles that this person operated under. There were 20-something handles they used over approximately a 6 month period of monitoring. I was always able to find a small piece…

For the record, careful with doing private investigations. It might look good on Netflix, but can turn sour real fast.

What can happen?

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

Geeflow wrote: post #52
jdsully wrote: post #41

I don't really use IRC anymore but at the time I remember really hating loggers. Chats were informal and I really didn't like them showing up in google results and elsewhere. Not everything needs to be saved.

I would have shared the same sentiment. I never came across a logger, though, when I was still active on IRC. Are loggers a more recent (as in this millenium) development?

I would say chat history and asymmetrical scheduling for chat are expectations in this day and age, and the lack of them is one of the biggest reasons people find IRC irritating or difficult. (I ask a question, and if the person fit to answer it isn't logged in right now, it never gets even responded to.)

Every fairly modern chat solution, Skype, Discord, Slack, etc. allows you to see messages while you were offline. Compared to things from the older eras of messaging like AIM and YIM, when generally you couldn't even message someone unless they were online as well.

So it's not surprising to me for IRC loggers to be a relatively more modern element: They're filling in a gap IRC has with modern chat clients.

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by eloahx »

Avamander wrote: post #16
rasengan wrote: post #11

I just wanted to take a moment and share with the HN community that IRC is definitely very alive and kicking! There are great channels for thousands of amazing projects, communities and teams spread across so many great IRC Networks, from Freenode [1] to OFTC [2], to Rizon [3], to DALnet [4], to tildeverse [5], Snoonet [6], Quakenet [7], EFnet [8], IRCnet [9] among other networks [10]. IRC is no longer difficult to u…

You've missed the best IRC bouncer-client there is - Quassel.

jbnc :D

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by kirstenbirgit »

perlgeek wrote: post #25

I also ran a public IRC logger (mostly in and around the perl/raku communities, but also other channels). Simplify figuring out if IRC logs fall under GDPR was nearly impossible to me, so I shut down some time ago. (It might have violated earlier privacy regulations as well, hard to tell). Lots of people offered their opinion on that topic, but when it goes to court, none of those opinions matter. Hiring my own lawye…

what do you imagine would have happened if you kept it running?

Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

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Post by _e »

toxik wrote: post #19
rasengan wrote: post #11

I just wanted to take a moment and share with the HN community that IRC is definitely very alive and kicking! There are great channels for thousands of amazing projects, communities and teams spread across so many great IRC Networks, from Freenode [1] to OFTC [2], to Rizon [3], to DALnet [4], to tildeverse [5], Snoonet [6], Quakenet [7], EFnet [8], IRCnet [9] among other networks [10]. IRC is no longer difficult to u…

How can you not list QuakeNet?!

irc.mtv.com isn't on the list
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