Updated Field Of Visibility

Joins and Parts are Removed from API Returns

The data is still present in the backend so that identity research pages still work, they just aren’t displayed in the log viewer.  There is almost nothing lost by this and plenty gained.

IRCTHULU Logs

Metadata

  • The time the logs resume (correlates to joins in local log)
  • The time the logs stop after a kline (correlates to kline in local log)
  • [any entries present in local logs not present in ircthulu logs — mitigated by random capture delay at client level]

Their Local Logs

Data

  • joins (completely mitigated)
    • user
    • host
    • ident
    • realname
  • registration
    • email (if I reduce this to the last one I’ll be able to confirm they’re tracking users’ emails)
    • host
    • user
    • ident

Metadata

  • age of registration on join
  • profile of joined channels
  • vps provider profile

This Blog

This blog is a great source of information for predictive analytics now.  As it is intended to be.