so /. picked up this story about this company which uses irc bots to lurk on irc rooms and record everything everyone says, and then makes it indexable and such...
i am far to lazy to go dig around to prove it, but i don't think these are the first guys in this game... i've been googling solutions to really obscure tech stuff at least 3 or 4 times in the past and i've come upon results which seemed to be irc-ish chatlogs...
basically, the log is just a txt style web page using the familiar irc "username: comment" format... as i scroll through the google cache looking for the highlighted keyword, i'm reading the conversation and it's just ppl chatting about misc stuff... not a page, not a blog, just a record of some conversation which happened to contain keywords that i was searching for and get ranked in the first few pages so i found it...
anyone else seen this?
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I've seen it too. Never really thought about it too much. Goes to show, if you run an irc channel you should manage connecting users.
and/or watch what you say when in irc (or on the inet, or on the phone) and assume somewhere someone is listening and recording ;)
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