Malkieri History

Okay, this is my best attempt at recalling the total history of Malkier, #malkier, and everyone in-between. The dates are probably way off in some (most) cases, and dead on in others. If you remember something differently, feel free to email me corrections.

A Few Notes

Don’t accept dates in this as 100% fact. They’ll probably change after a few people get a good look at them. People with a better memory than me.

Dates in this document take the form MMM DD YYYY (eg: Nov 11 2004). This appears to be the only semi-international format.

Most of the events before 2002 happened on irc.scifi.com. This place ran a hacked-up version of IRC and the server software contained many, many exploits. Most of which were found by members of #malkier. They never got fixed, so we left. This server also had little (zero) administration. This meant that the toughest person on the server was the toughest person, period. It was really rather tribal, actually.

The “services” and “stats” programs mentioned before 2004 are probably Cygnus IRC Services and OperStats. Both were originally written by skold and I later ported them to TS5.

Terminology

• IRC – Internet Relay Chat. A real-time chat medium that predates all of the instant messaging networks and postdates bulletin board systems.

• XMPP – Extensible Messsaging and Presence Protocol. Commonly known as Jabber, XMPP is a real-time chat medium that vastly improves upon both IM and IRC.

• DoS – Denial of Service. An act that generally exploits a known problem in server software to disrupt its function.

• DDoS – Distributed Denial of Serivice. An act where several hundred (or even thousand) computers are remotely controlled by a single person or a small group of people for the sole purpose of flooding a servers bandwidth to the point where it is unreachable.

• Flooding – on IRC: an act that causes a client’s SendQ to exceed its limit and disconnect the client from the server.

Names in this Document

This is a brief listing of the most commonly-mentioned names in this document. In nickname-alphabetical order:

• Anthony (AKA: Napoleon, e) – Anthony Rogers
• Barbarella (AKA: Gimpy) – Leah Gondron
• Chibu (AKA: Tetsuo) – Dan Lanigan
• Guyver (AKA: Jonque) – Matt Atkins
• harrimat – Matt Harrison
• Jason
• joft (AKA: ChianasJosh) – Josh Loftus
• Justin (AKA: Jufineath) – Justin King
• madragoran (AKA: money, Demandred) – Mike Campbell
• naki (AKA: Tank, sanosuke) – Adam Walls
• nenolod – William Pitcock
• NuWave – Mike Loggie
• phreaked – Jeramiah Johnson
• rakaur (AKA: skylark, Apophis, Artanis, Lan) – Eric Will
• rintaun (AKA: Ender) – Matt Lanigan
• Scorpwanna – Brandon Strickland
• ShakingSpirit – Anthony Stainer
• skold – Darcy Grexton
• sycobuny (AKA: HarpyDragon) – Stephen Belcher
• tanka – Erik White

November to December, 1999

• rakaur is introduced to Scorpwanna on irc.scifi.com

• Scorpwanna introduces rakaur to joft

• #TwiNET is formed on irc.scifi.com by rakaur, Scorpwanna, and joft

• Scorpwanna invites Guyver to join #TwiNET

January to May, 2002

• #TwiNET continues to grow with around 20 users

• joft forms #Talyn

• joft and rakaur discover a flaw in the IRC server software which allows multiple targets in PRIVMSG to be defined as the same entity (and thus allowing limitless floods)

June, 2000 to May, 2001

• rakaur goes offline for a while

• #TwiNET dies

• #Talyn dies

• rintaun and tanka form #ProjectXero

June to October, 2001

• rakaur returns to IRC

• rakaur recollects #TwiNET’s members into #Aiur

• rakaur meets madragoran on irc.ukscifi.net

• #Aiur is replaced by #AesSedai

• Regular members include: rakaur, Scorpwanna, joft, Guyver, and madragoran

November to December, 2001

• #AesSedai and joft’s channel merged to form #malkier

• Anthony forms an “IRC war gang” called #se7en

• Members of #se7en reak havoc upon irc.scifi.com by flooding and taking over channels

• Yoshi and Barbarella form a mock “EI8HT” and constantly fight with members of #se7en for control of the server

• Members of #malkier seize #se7en and persaudes them to control themselves

• #se7en (mostly) disbands and Anthony starts attending #malkier

• #ProjectXero merges into #malkier

January to May, 2002

• Yoshi discovers a buffer overflow exploit in a combination of the IRC server software and mIRC and reaks havoc with it because there is no known protection

• rakaur writes a proxy that filters out the overflow exploit

• rakaur duplicates the exploit

• Members of #malkier pressure Yoshi into semi-decent behavior, as he no longer has total sway over everything

• Anthony introduces rakaur to sycobuny

• Regular members include: rakaur, Scorpwanna, joft, Guyver, madragoran, Anthony, and sycobuny

June, 2002

• During a sponsored chat, Anthony tricks a scifi.com moderator into giving him “supervisor” status (roughly equivilent to IRC operator)

• Random users also gain supervisor (“+s”) and reak havoc

• Members of #malkier take control of irc.scifi.com

• After control is released to the official scifi.com IRC administrator, Barbarella and rakaur are made permanent “supervisors”

• rakaur stumbles upon skold’s Website and starts attending his IRC network, irc.habber.net

• rakaur finds documentation for irc.scifi.com’s IRCd software and learns how to wield +s properly and effectively

• naki starts causing trouble by flooding and taking over channels

• naki is… persuaded by #malkier to cease

• naki starts attending #malkier

July, 2002

• rakaur and sycobuny write several scripts to aid in the day-to-day operation of irc.scifi.com

• sycobuny begins writing an advanced server/channel management service

• rakaur becomes an operator on phoenix.tx.us.habber.net

• An “autokill” script is written to allow server-wide bans for irc.scifi.com

• rakaur and sycobuny are betrayed by Barbarella and the scifi.com administrator; rakaur loses +s

• #malkier abandons irc.scifi.com

August, 2002 to Febuary, 2003

• #malkier moves to irc.habber.net

• Regular members include: rakaur, Guyver, madragoran, sycobuny, rintaun, tanka, and naki

March to August, 2003

• phoenix.ca.us.habber.net is taken offline by its ISP due to DDoS attacks

• sleestack.or.us.habber.net links to HabberNet, administered by madragoran and rakaur

• rakaur becomes an operator on lik-m-aid.ca.us.blitzed.org

• rakaur goes offline for a while.

• scratchnsniff.oh.us.habber.net links, administered by Justin

• mango.ca.us.habber.net delinks; taking www, services, and FTP with it

• nfinite.ny.us.habber.net delinks

September to October, 2003

• joft gets pissed and leaves

• GhostX gets pissed and leaves

• i\o gets pissed and leaves

• rintaun gets pissed and leaves

• Regular members include: rakaur, Guyver, madragoran, tanka, sycobuny, Chibu, skold, Justin, harrimat, NuWave, phreaked, and naki

3 November to December, 2003

• #malkier realizes the eventual self-destruction of HabberNet

• naki buys an IRCd shell

• Voting on [email protected] sets up Malkier IRC Network

• irc.dereferenced.org links administered by rakaur and naki

• forsaken.malkier.net links administered by rakaur

• irc.projectxero.net links administered by rintaun

• irc.xzion.net links administered by sycobuny

• Malkier IRC Network formed, running ircd-ratbox, OperStats, and BOPM

• #malkier moves to irc.malkier.net

• Network policies formalized

• Network running OpenChanFix to fix opless channels

• irc.wrecked.net links administered by Jason

• irc.xzion.net leaps off of a table to its doom and is delinked

• Network running Thales IRC to MySQL gateway

• Network running Sentinel Statistical Services

January to March, 2004

• irc.projectxero.net is delinked

• rintaun gets pissed and leaves

• foonet is raided by the FBI; irc.dereferenced.org is offline for nearly a week

• irc.projectxero.net relinks administered by rintaun

• irc.coreag.net links administered by naki

• Network running Shrike IRC Services

• irc.dereferenced.org is taken offline; the entire network nearly dies

• Hosting for irc.dereferenced.org donated by n8

April to May, 2004

• A few channels finally move to the network

• forsaken.malkier.net replaced by cyndane.malkier.net

• nenolod and his posse link to the network, bringing several users and channels. After maybe a week, his ADD sets in and he decides to leave and link to another network (which he has already delinked from, by the way)

• irc.coreag.net dies

June to July, 2004

• The channels that moved have pretty much died

• rakaur puts up a Website, finally

August, 2004

• shakingspirit.malkier.net links administered by ShakingSpirit

• irc.ircwars.net links administered by naki

• rakaur moves the Website to hosting donated by Jason and begins sprucing it up.

• cyndane.malkier.net changes to cyndane.ericw.org

• irc.ircwars.net delinks because rakaur tells naki he’s not in the mood to listen to him. naki proves he’s just that cool by delinking with five seconds notice

• shakingspirit.malkier.net disappears

September to November, 2004

• No one cares anymore; discussion of merging with HabberNet takes place several times without any result

December, 2004

• The IRC network turns one

• nenolod and such link a ton of servers… again

• HabberNet switches to ircd-ratbox

January, 2005

• nenolod’s ADD once again sets in and he and his kiddie krew depart

Feburary to April, 2005

• All servers die except for irc.dereferenced.org

• Jabber server starts at ericw.org

• [email protected] first created

May, 2005

• irc.dereferenced.org links to OSCN as dereferenced.oscnet.org

• There are no longer any servers running under the name “Malkier”

• #malkier remains with a few people: rakaur, joft, madragoran, and naki

June to October, 2005

• Yeah, everything’s pretty much the same

December, 2005

• On the two year mark, dereferenced.oscnet.org delinks and renames to irc.malkier.net

January, 2006 to 2008

• Most remaining members on XMPP, irc.malkier.net and/or irc.chorn.com

• www.malkier.net relaunched as community website

• rakaur’s personal website at www.ericw.org

• sycobuny’s personal website at www.xzion.net

2009 to Present

• #malkier and a few users sit sad and lonely on irc.malkier.net with no links

• dKingston quitely sobs

Oh, and, by the way:

-!- phreaked [[email protected]] has quit [Killed (Justin (HORSE FUCKING))]