wibbler2

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   by wibbler2 11y ago

   one of the main points of the article is that people don't check fingerprints, and that you should use encryption layered on top of IRC if you want any real privacy
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   by wibbler2 11y ago

   it's an IRC network aimed at gamers where 98% of channels are public and free for anyone to join without any form of authentication ever. so you'd be more accurate to say it covers 98/100 of cases, and we leave the other 2 op
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   by wibbler2 11y ago

   author here, note that my view has somewhat changed from that which I held in 2009 from "it's silly" to "we'll do it if when we solve a few problems first." PKI deployment in a semi-untrusted environment is sti