Introducing Stalker: Nickname History For Irssi

Posted by Geert Hauwaerts on October 7^th 2010

Stalker is an Irssi plugin to correlate information on an IRC network and discover users' previously used nicknames. The concept is fairly straightforward: given a nickname identify previously used hostnames.

From those hostnames, extract all nicknames they have used. Repeat until you have identified all nicknames a user might have used.

The advantage of this method over the more traditional "given a hostname identify all nicknames it has used" is that you can identify nicknames across hostmask addresses.

Stalker can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/symkat/Stalker.

More information can be found on the authors blog.