For the folks who are planning to re-use those tools to analyze botnets, they should think again. The botnet "controller" usually DDoS the monitoring machine. They would also observe their bots for consistency. Moreover, they would keep changing the protocol making it difficult for people to construct clients to connect to those IRC channels.
I think you want to write a program which shows the power of computer as well as appealing to kids. Moreover, it should show that there is lot of thing to be done in computers. In such a case, I would like to write an automatic kid-conversor. Code a couple of sentences and contexts, so that the program is able to reply pretty well for average kid but the samrt ones would discover the flaws.
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For the folks who are planning to re-use those tools to analyze botnets, they should think again. The botnet "controller" usually DDoS the monitoring machine. They would also observe their bots for consistency. Moreover, they would keep changing the protocol making it difficult for people to construct clients to connect to those IRC channels.
I think you want to write a program which shows the power of computer as well as appealing to kids. Moreover, it should show that there is lot of thing to be done in computers. In such a case, I would like to write an automatic kid-conversor. Code a couple of sentences and contexts, so that the program is able to reply pretty well for average kid but the samrt ones would discover the flaws.