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I can't believe IRC folks are _still_ using three-letter agencies as a justification for their management like 30 years later, in the face of not using SSL for
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
I can't believe IRC folks are _still_ using three-letter agencies as a justification for their management like 30 years later, in the face of not using SSL for decades and private messaging passwords to a user/bot named NickServ. If you want to hold onto a (more passionate) version of what IRC used to be, be my guest, but lets drop this useless rhetoric. Please stop LARPing freedom fighter.
- welterde 5y agoI have been connecting to IRC using SSL for well over a decade. SASL authentication is also a thing for many years now (and most clients support it out of the box). There are channel settings one can set to prohibit people entering from non-secure connections as well (in cases where the network still allows non-ssl connections). However it's not unreasonable to assume that most three-letter agencies (and perhaps some companies) will simply have bots silently sitting in most large public channels (if those channels don't have public logs anyway).