ircbots generally operate in public or group channels. I think there' a distinction between this and a bot operating in a private communications channel. >I th

ircbots generally operate in public or group channels. I think there' a distinction between this and a bot operating in a private communications channel. >I think the better choice here is to ensure that the public has a way to communicate securely and that our mental model of "trust usually, distrust as the exception" needs to move to "distrust usually, trust as the exception". I can't square this with your previous stance easily. This would for me imply that private communicates should have end-to-end encryption. And that another party couldn't intercept URLs unless they were explicitly transmitted out of band by the client (which I would guess isn't the case here).