Looking For Help - Irc Server

I don't know how to set up an IRC, or TOR hidden services, but is it possible for us to make use of TOR hidden services? I use TOR to prevent my BNC server from having too much revealed, because I'm not supposed to use that server

 

You never hear of TOR?
Tor not believe this!

 

https://www.torproject.org/
It's a tool that directs traffic over several encrypted nodes to hide the origin of the traffic. There are ways to identify people using it, because people are easy to identify. Such as, if I was using TOR and used the name Catalyst or Alexander Cecena; These are common aliases of mine.

However, in this use case, it's obscuring the origin and not myself. It allows my usage of BNC on company servers to go unreported, because I know that the outgoing traffic is not audited due it being not necessary.

Though, it's flawed in the sense that the nodes are all peoples' computers, which means that it shouldn't be used for bandwidth heavy activities like downloads and streaming.

Though, some people use it religiously and of those the people who use it wisely with knowledge result in people that are nearly untrackable without some sort of hint.

Edit: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

 

The problem with setting up a Hidden Service is that any client must use TOR to connect to it, so all agents should be tech savy enough to be able to use TOR.
(But I personally like the idea)

 

That's only partially true... Yes, you need to be able to figure out TOR to connect to a TOR hidden service, but it's entirely possible to have a server that operates both as a hidden service as well as accepting conventional internet connections. This is what Freenode does - you can spot users connecting that way based on the "gateway/tor-sasl/" in their hostname when you do a /WHO.

-Bats

 

As far as my understanding goes, it's like a special domain name.