BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Spy on IRC connections?
De:       sbdstech
Data:     Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:47:22 -0700
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> On 11 Mar 2026, sbdstech said the following...

> are you in California?

> California: Under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), it is
> illegal to record any communication without the consent of all parties
> involved.

> irc chat would probably fall under the ECPA too?

> while you'd probably be fine peeking at where users are getting stuck on a
> menu or watching how they crash a bbs door to leave a node stuck, i'd advise
> against trying to log chats.

> now that i'm thinking about it, it's probably not legal to read your user's
> email anymore either.. a lot has changed and an "assume i read everything"
> banner on a BBS is NOT something that would fly.

> why do you want to view their chats anyway? are you a creep?

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Well putting the log level to debug got the desired result ... and no I'm not a
creep but I had about 12 connections to the IRC server that were connected for
over 24 hours so I just wanted to see if it was just bots as i assumed it was
... and it was ..
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