Everything you described is an abuse of administration mistakes and has nothing to do with hacking (?) an irc/ircd. There are numerous patches to prevent it. As for "hacking irc" -- it is pretty indefinete what could it be... Intruding to machine which is running an irc server isn't something new -- it is just a machine with an ircd running. Exploiting administration to hack mistakes isn't anything new either -- there's lot's of idiotss abusing server's code bugs, to say, +k bug to fight each other. Anyhow, I do not thing this discussion has any future, as long as there's nothing to discuss. -mishania, irc.ru administrator.