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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by simias on Thursday February 06, 2014 @08:49AM (#7190322)
To what end would the GCHQ DDoS IRC servers? What would they gain from that?
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by meebi on Thursday February 06, 2014 @08:50AM (#7190328)
According to the leaked documents, denial of the targeted users to communicate with each other.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by Cthulhu_ on Thursday February 06, 2014 @10:47AM (#7190908)
Basically, jamming communications between internet terrorists / freedom fighters (depending on your stance on the matter)
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by ersii on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:59PM (#7191791)
And/or just regular people who chat with each other.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by valarauca1 on Thursday February 06, 2014 @03:28PM (#7192733)
EMP'ing the telephone exchange hopping to cut off the bad guys phone calls to each other.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by a3n on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:48PM (#7192513)
Telling their boss that they did something.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by zecho on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:07AM (#7190415)
DDoS has also been used to cause netsplits, which can then be exploited to gain access to private rooms.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by meebi on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:11AM (#7190428)
On any sensible IRCd this won't happen. Users sneaking in during netsplits will be booted as netriders when the split closes.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by phusion on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:17PM (#7191476)
They wanted to stop AnonOps from enabling the planning and execution of Anonymous operations. They bragged that a month after "rolling thunder" that the same nicknames/operations weren't there anymore. It's hardly effective, mostly childish.
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Re:IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments by TuringTest on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:22AM (#7210812)
That news is covered here:

http://blogs.csoonline.com/other/2979/irc-network-calls-inve...

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