Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by mst on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:18PM
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Speaking as a freenode staffer:
1) There are a number of ways to decloak somebody purely via irc/ircd fuckery - though it's liable to require several minutes of dedicated effort to do so.
2) There's a non-zero likelihood that if you try any of those ways we will spot you and k-line you.
3) That likelihood is not a guarantee, so when cloaking people we always make sure to warn them first that cloaks aren't 100% reliable and if users really want to protect their IP address they want a VPS, a VPN, or tor.
4) No, I'm not going to be any less vague about 1, just because it's not actually hard doesn't mean I want to encourage it.
1) There are a number of ways to decloak somebody purely via irc/ircd fuckery - though it's liable to require several minutes of dedicated effort to do so.
2) There's a non-zero likelihood that if you try any of those ways we will spot you and k-line you.
3) That likelihood is not a guarantee, so when cloaking people we always make sure to warn them first that cloaks aren't 100% reliable and if users really want to protect their IP address they want a VPS, a VPN, or tor.
4) No, I'm not going to be any less vague about 1, just because it's not actually hard doesn't mean I want to encourage it.