If you just want to have a try on channels dedicated to hacking use this link it will take you to an applet accessing IRC. It will request from you to trust the signed applet, in order to allow the applet to connect to IRC channels directly. This is circumventing the security model of the Java Virutal Machine (JVM), of your browser. We call this using signed applets.Then your browser will be able to connect to other network servers than the one it came from.

http://www.hack-net.com/html/hncirc/

Then select a server and a channel, and you are ready to ask questions like :

<Surcouf#HackPhreack> What tool to use to crack excel password protected files.

If you are behind a firewall you will have some problems, since normaly the network access to IRC is closed. To open that access on a firewall you need to have access on port 6667 or some other listed in the table below. Your company should not accept that kind of access, but you are free to try it from home.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of IRC channels, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world.

to get some help in an IRC type on the  command line : /help

 

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