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Todo

Improve infrastructure

High Priority

• Finish porting new UI to dokuwiki
• **Security hardening**
• Updated security issues page?
• PF hardening
• Setup underprivileged user accounts for each $service with limited permissions
• root should only be used as last resort
• only root can use fdisk
• configure doas properly
• Check permissions
• Implement **quotas/limits**</del>
• Setup **openrsync** and **sftp** on shell.ircnow.org
• Define **Disaster Recovery Plan**
• Automated backups
• Restore testing
• Discuss and vote on privacy policy
• Replace **nsd** with **DelphinusDNSd**
• Setup DNSSEC

Medium Priority

• Setup **mx2**
• Implement both mx across whole infrastructure
• Setup **cgit** and **cvsweb**
• Setup **snmpd**
• Monitor:
• Resource utilization (CPU, RAM, swap. Disk IOps and space) globally
• Filesystem inconsistencies, SSD/HDD errors/failure trough sysutils/smartmontools
• Stopped daemons
• Failed backups
• Failed scripts
• Send email and/or output on #mon
• **Block undesired content** (ads, porn, malware) with hosts/DNS
• Blacklist current $domain A/AAAA records and block outgoing packets to those IPS
• Implement ELIST functionality (advertise in RPL_ISUPPORT) for more flexible /LiST searching. See https://modern.ircdocs.horse/#list-message and https://modern.ircdocs.horse/#elist-parameter for specification details. Added to medium because currently IRCCloud cannot gain the /LIST at all, and it is a widely used client/bouncer

Low Priority

• Setup **CARP**
• Write and deploy **compliance.ksh** to make sure our users are not breaking the terns they agreed)
• Check processes
• NSFW scanbot
• Write and deploy IRC bot so users can easily request 1 or more services
• !request [$service]
• Invoke **$ircnowctl**
• Write and deploy **ircnowctl** (k(sh) or perl)
• Controller to automate:
• **User management** (add/mod/del/suspend/ban)
• Enable **ssh access** (pubkeys)
• Update **DNS records**
• **Quota management** (enable/disable/++/--)
• Setup **chroot**
• **Check and fix permissions**
• **Service management** (add/del/suspend/ban)
• Pipe to **$servicectl**
• Setup **tor hidden services** for each service

marketing

• business plans?
• Hosting plans?
• Shell Ads?

  - Get added to: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/8bfx/good_free_ssh_shell_accounts/
  - <del>https://aruljohn.com/freeshell/</del> -- sent emails
  - https://freeshells.info/ -- can't find email or way to get added
  - http://www.asgaur.com/wp/unix-free-shell-accounts/
  - <del>egghelp.org</del> -- sent email
  - <del>https://shells.red-pill.eu/</del> -- emailed, waiting for approval
  - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20511/are-free-shell-accounts-safe
  - Get listed on undeadly.org
  - Post on stack exchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20511/are-free-shell-accounts-safe
  - <del>https://www.learnshell.org/</del> -- Sent suggestion
  - https://flaviocopes.com/shells/

• For bouncer providers, get added here:

  - https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/29511/free-bnc
  - https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/xbjfg/free_irc_bouncer/
  - https://fedoramagazine.org/never-leave-irc-znc/

• Get our IRC network listed:

  - https://search.mibbit.com/
  - https://netsplit.de/

opers

• Train opers in basic ngircd commands
• Set up test ircd
• Test out spam repos
• Write anti-spam bots
• Switch over to achurch's services, write anti-spam services

IRC services

• MemeServ
• HoneyServ
• PasteServ
• TrapServ
• FileServ
• KeyServ

VOIP

• Setup asterisk
• Free sip accounts for everyone
• Charge for public telephone calls
• Charge for DIDs
• Include SIP clients with IRC clients
• Provide free TURN/STUN servers

shop

• Use oscommerce
• Add organic food products
• Add specialty handicraft goods

shell accounts

• offer prizes and competitions for dev
• ask for help with wikis
• set up easy eggdrops
• fix cumulus cloud and h5ai
• add rsync support
• ffmpeg?
• fix cloudmounter for mac
• add rsync, sshfuse support for sftp
• See https://blinkenshell.org/wiki/Info/ResourceLimits for reference
• https://www.freeshells.org/wiki/index.php?title=Services
• https://sdf.org/?tutorials
• https://www.nyx.net/help.html#unix
• https://www.freeshells.org/wiki/index.php?title=Services
• https://www.grex.org/
• https://www.unixporting.com/remote-accounts.html
• https://sdfeu.org/w/
• https://freeshell.de/~lysy/public/free.htm

Implement ssh automated account creation:

https://www.ostechnix.com/sdf-provides-free-shell-account-and-shell-access-to-all/

Hosting plans?

cronjobs

• write cronjobs to automate wraith, bnc, acme-client

asterisk

• Setup asterisk
• Write documentation for SIP clients

ngircd

• set up irc hidden service
• Add connection/join/nick flood protection
• Add +r restricted user mode
• Add defcon mode
• Add censor lists for unregistered users
• Verify hopm accuracy
• Update terms of service
• Fix /var/log/messages syslog messages for ngircd
• Clean up patches
• Nickserv/Chanserv flood protection
• Migrate to atheme?
• Add /ns and /cs aliases
• Block nick juping

ldap

• Add single sign-in

Website

• Write registration into app
• Improve anycasting and redundancy

Git

• Switch to stagit
• Import git repos

PyLink

• Fix spam filters

Bridges

• Add support for matrix
• Add bitlbee support for slack, twitter, telegram, discord, signal
• Improve bitlbee documentation
• Add telegram/discord for bnc3
• Research bitlbee-telegram usernames foreign charset problem

SIP

• We want to build an open source competitor that can fight head to head with discord and Skype and TeamSpeak
• Provide free SIP accounts using Asterisk. Connect asterisk to the PSTN using a provider like callwithus.com
• Free unlimited video calls within the network, outbound calls charge 20-50% premium
• Put SIP softphone client in our custom IRC client, make it run natively on every major OS plus web
• Add speech2text module to transcribe all audio into text for IRC for people who don't like typing/on mobile phones
• Bake a SIP client into minetest so that virtual world gamers can have audio calls with our irc users
• Bridge SIP to mumble so we can interop with the large mumble community
• Create IRC/Web interface for registering DIDs so users can purchase their own phone numbers and get voicemail. We can charge 20-50% premium for DIDs
• Provide free TURN/STUN services
• Make software so easy to install and configure, a 10 year old child could do it, then charge enterprises money to help them install it in-house

Abuse

• ban abjects, high times?
• fix dns blacklist

Question2Answer

• Convert to IRCNow

Minetest Gaming

• Set up final minetest servers
• Switch over to Fogle's craft because of better MIT license for Apple iOS and locked platforms

Security

• Build security community
• Add livestreaming audio/video played by bot, !play url
• https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/identd/
• create bot masquerades as a normal user and sets the user as +r upon receiving a PM

Low Priority

• Fileserv -- DCC
• Pasteserv -- PRIVMSG
• PM flood honeypot
• Chan honeypot
• NSFW scanbot
• Write IRC games
• Write IRC messenger for Android, iOS, and web

psyBNC

• Add contact lists
• Add file upload

Squirrel mail

13:39 < gry> after clicking send the page stays there for a 
             few secs, i feel tempted to click send again
13:39 < gry> this might result in messages being sent twice

ilines

• mh approved 50 per IPv6 and 50? ipv4 on ircnet
• available on irc.us, eris.us, atw-inter.net (not ssl), and portlane.se