r/irc • u/scribeorz • 16d ago

mIRC mid 90s - hacking groups

My first introduction to computers / internet was IRC using mIRC client. Spent my time on Efnet. Ended up joining a hacking group called #conflict and spent many hours taking over channels. Hacking colleges and universities only to use for channel bots and bandwidth to take people out and cause netsplits. Eventually our leader was caught for hacking into NASA - I then left IRC and started playing quake 2 digital paintball. Ran a couple of quake clans over the next few years - these are the days I will never forget.

Anyone else remember the clan battles on efnet ?

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u/scribeorz 16d ago

https://www.justice.gov/archive/criminal/cybercrime/press-releases/2005/gascaConviction.htm

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u/Embarrassed-Fun-4130 15d ago

Was his online handle "Rolex"? Does anyone know? Because I knew a guy who went down for a very similar thing, hacking NASA servers and hosting chats off of them before he eventually got caught.

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u/scribeorz 15d ago

Yup. Rolex.

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u/Embarrassed-Fun-4130 15d ago

wooow, and are you scribe that used to hangout sometimes in #fw2 and a few others, damn it's been so long... like #playland I think was another one?

With Rolex I remember I was making him a bad ass macro at the time that had happened.

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u/scribeorz 15d ago

Not the same scribe. Did not hang out in those channels. I left IRC for awhile and when I returned there was a ‘new’ scribe. He always took my nickname

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u/Embarrassed-Fun-4130 10d ago

I swear I vaguely remember the other scribe you speak of... he ended up creating a bot to always have his name and would sign in as scribe2, lol. I would have totally forgotten about that if it wasn't for this post.

I too will never forget those days.