Nubcaek

[elvum]

Public IRC channels - aren't they great?

13:04 < vamp> hi evrybode alive here :)
13:06 < vamp> who have botnets here ?
13:07 < elvum> you misunderstand - we ARE a botnet
13:08 < elvum> of unimaginable destructive powers.
13:08 < elvum> ph33r us, oh yes
13:08 < vamp> hey bro listen
13:08 < vamp> i have a server ircd
13:09 < vamp> i wanno to put 1000 botnet in my server
13:09 < vamp> cant do this ?
13:09 < elvum> I'm sorry, but your l33tness is too much for me - I have to go
               afk and get some lunch
13:10 < vamp> aha ok

Comments

[johnckirk.livejournal.com]

Weird, and I'm not entirely clear on what the person was actually asking for...

I understand the basic principle of "pwning" people's PCs, then getting them to turn up on an IRC channel to await orders (e.g. "attack that server over there"). However, if you've gathered your own fleet, it seems unlikely that you'd want to hand over control of it to someone else. I assume he means "a botnet of 1000 machines", rather than "1000 separate botnets, each with many machines", but either way it's quite optimistic.

[elvum.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there should be some international coordination so that you could just email that kind of conversation off to a central address and police in the relevant country could ask the person in question's ISP to keep an eye out for unusual activity (like 1000 computers connecting to an IRC server hosted on their ADSL)...

[johnckirk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe next time it's worth asking the guy for the name of his server :)

[shuripentu.livejournal.com]

The important question, of course, is:
How do you pronounce "nubcaek"?

[elvum.livejournal.com]

"n00b"+"cake", I think...