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Internet Relay Chat beat Slack to real-time chat by decades and helped define much of our early online culture, yet way more people use Slack. Why is that? Continue reading Why Did Slack Win Out Over IRC, Anyway?
Assuming a network which has absolutely no support for SSL/TLS, as rationalised by this blog post, is it possible guarantee the security of privileged operator connections?
There are already mechanisms which allow us to oper… Continue reading Is SSL/TLS pointless for IRC?
Today scanned some ip for irc and get such report, what is mean:
6667/tcp open irc?
| fingerprint-strings:
| DNSStatusRequest:
| HAAAPSI PDvIGAz4U5 20
| DNSVersionBindReq:
| HAAAPSI za4JbyEZwY 20
| FourOhFo… Continue reading Nmap IRC scan result, what is it?
Today scanned some ip for irc and get such report, what is mean:
6667/tcp open irc?
| fingerprint-strings:
| DNSStatusRequest:
| HAAAPSI PDvIGAz4U5 20
| DNSVersionBindReq:
| HAAAPSI za4JbyEZwY 20
| FourOhFo… Continue reading Nmap IRC scan result, what is it? [on hold]
Old-school chat still thrives. Continue reading Hack This: Start an IRC Channel
In April 2016, security firm Trend Micro published a damning report about a Web hosting provider referred to only as a “cyber-attack facilitator in the Netherlands.” If the Trend analysis lacked any real punch that might have been because — shortly after the report was published — names were redacted so that it was no longer immediately clear exactly who the bad hosting provider was. This post aims to shine a bit more light on the individuals apparently behind this mysterious rogue hosting firm — a company called HostSailor[dot]com. Continue reading The Reincarnation of a Bulletproof Hoster
When it comes to chat, you have many choices. Facebook Messenger, Google Talk, Whatsapp, Kik, and Slack are all viable options. However, all of these choices are proprietary, and require you to use servers that you can’t run yourself. They’re highly centralized, closed source tools.
In the open source world, IRC has been the go to solution for chat for many years, and for good reason. Anyone can run a server, there’s many clients, and it’s built on open standards. But IRC comes from a pre-mobile world, and relies on clients to maintain persistent connections to the server. It’s not …read more
Continue reading Distributed, Open Source Chat with Vector and Matrix
The log shows an organization stuck between a rock and a hard place: one that wants to develop, but which also has to deal with the PR-fallout of working with former government. Continue reading Tor Project Battled Over Hiring Ex-CIA Agent, Chat Logs Show
What is so special about IRC that hackers use it to do online meetings, ignoring every other option, like messengers or social media?
It seems to be very secure that it gets used to send commands to victim’s computers instead of just send… Continue reading How is IRC so secure/untraceable that hackers and pirates use it to communicate?