[kwlug-disc] Mysterious filtered ports on a server

[Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)]

> On Oct 26, 2016, at 2:53 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was not aware that IRC could carry the seeds of destruction...  But then again, I'm not a heavy IRC user.  I'm surprised that you can run scripts in IRC.  I thought it was bare bones text only, but I'll take your word for it.

It is. So is SMTP and HTTP, JSON calls are all (can be) just text blobs.

you could use OTR and encrypt over IRC as well, or just ROT13 it all. Or Base64 or MIME-encode the data, but really you don’t need anything more than “ping $IP” or “ddos $TARGET”…

-A.