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Wait, how secure is IRC anyway? The article states that he trusted Sabu, but didn't he also trust the people who ran the IRC servers plus anybody able to sniff

by praptak 15y ago

Wait, how secure is IRC anyway? The article states that he trusted Sabu, but didn't he also trust the people who ran the IRC servers plus anybody able to sniff their traffic?

deno 15y ago
He connected to IRC via Tor overlay. I don’t know what IRC network is Anonymous using, but even Freenode offers native Onion gateway to their network[1]. [1] http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml
- praptak 15y ago
  Ok, scratch "anybody able to sniff their traffic" (assuming both sides use the native gateway.) This still leaves the IRC server itself as a potential vulnerability.
- runn1ng 15y ago
  Anonymous are (I think) mostly using anonops. But I personally thought anonops have tor banned by default, so who knows.