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Once I hacked together a similar program to log the terminal activity of fellow students on the university UNIX and Linux servers: https://github.com/andyn/acts
by anilakar 9y ago
Once I hacked together a similar program to log the terminal activity of fellow students on the university UNIX and Linux servers: https://github.com/andyn/actspy/blob/master/actspy.c https://github.com/andyn/actspy/blob/master/actspy.c
The main objective, however, was not to stalk innocent users but to catch an anonymous IRC troll who was using an identless shell server in order to hide their real account name. Every time the troll wrote to IRC, the activity logger program showed typing activity from a certain user. After a few message exchanges during quiet night hours I was able to reliably pinpoint them.
- whamlastxmas 9y agoSo what happened after finding out who it was?
- anilakar 9y agoThat'll be the boring part of the story. I just /msged her primary nick and asked nicely if it was possible to stop. Apparently the threat of losing anonymity is enough to turn trolls back to normal people.
- inetknght 9y agoThis is, in a nutshell, the secret of the internet.
- thecrazyone 9y agoThe troll was never heard from again. He was made to "disappear" :D
- ycombinete 9y agoPlease finish this story.
- FractalNerve 9y agoI'm using an xposed mod to continually be online on WhatsApp, even when my phone's screen if off. Would this thwart such attacks? I mean it would be an anomaly, but other than that I don't know what other information you could get, except the last Online/Offline never changing. It confuses my friends though, who write me more at night times than usually, luckily though I've a DnD mode that saves me from waking up. (confuses gf too)