Telecomix Communications Agency

Please note: Nickname allows maximum 9 letters, no special characters. Telecomix is old skool! See below for howto connect securely.

Please note, you will have to confirm the security certificate below.

This service is provided as is by Telecomix Communications Agency. The IRC network is located on irc.telecomix.org, where you may connect with an ordinary client.

There are bridges to i2p and tor darknets for anonymous connections, see below.

Advanced IRC connectivity

Introduction

All Telecomix IRC servers have port 6697 and 9999 open for SSL. This will however not make you anonymous, only encrypt the messages and let you verify the server.

To verify the client to server connection, go through one of the following steps:

You may use any modern client with SSL support. This way your traffic is encrypted to our servers. For anonymity, however, please use I2P or Tor below.

(If you want to check that its really the correct SHA1 checksums, you can type " gnutls-cli --insecure -p 6697 irc.telecomix.org" into a terminal. Assuming you are using Linux (or probably also any other unix, maybe also Mac). It differs from program to program in Windows.)

I2P

  1. Download the I2P -router.
  2. Update your address book. SusiDNS is a tool that handles which addresses your computer can easily access inside the I2P network. What you need to do is to go to http://localhost:7657/susidns/subscriptions.jsp and add "http://bqecpeq5fmgg65mxciq3pmykt7g5fo2vsopylnrkrtqafi2wocqq.b32.i2p/addressbook.txt" to the subscription list. (In I2P, you are subscribing anonymous peoples lists containing addresses, rather than accepting the authoritarian DNS servers of the vanilla internets.)
  3. Make sure the router is running. Go to the control panel on http://localhost:7657. Create a new tunnel leading to our destination. Then add it to your router address book as irc.telecomix.i2p. Select a port of choice to where to connect. (for example 6669)
  4. Instruct any irc client to connect to localhost on port 6669, and you will be connected. SSL is not needed since you go straght into a darknet.

Tor

irc.telecomix.org is also accessible using a Tor hidden service located at ctcj7wybt4naqpqk.onion and some other addresses (see below). Using a Tor hidden service is somewhat like digging an i2p tunnel. Traffic sent to and from a hidden service never leaves the Tor darknet.

Windows users might want to read this website. To be honest, no one that wrote this tutorial had any idea of how to use windows. The website contains almost everything you need to know, it seems.

  1. Download tor
  2. Locate the torrc config file. You will need to edit it.
  3. Edit the file. Add "mapaddress 10.40.40.40 ctcj7wybt4naqpqk.onion" to the bottom of the file and save the file. It is an ordinary text file, so you can use vim, notepad, emacs, or whatever program that is not too fancy.
  4. Restart Tor.
  5. Instruct your irc client to connect to 10.40.40.40 instead of irc.telecomix.org. Every time you connect to this IP number, you will go through the Tor network. (If you want to, you can exchange 10.40.40.40 for any other IP address you want. It is just an example. This example should however work for nearly all computers and home networks.)

Here is a list of Tor hidden services running as IRC servers on port 6667