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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by kalleboo on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:55AM (#18726561)
In my middle school (late 90's, the age of ICQ) all the self-described "non-technical" girls spent their breaks on mIRC in the computer lab gossiping or whatever teenage girls do. If we're talking about a developer audience (the readers of Hacker News) it really isn't difficult at all.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by sneakernets on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:55PM (#18727197)
Are you sure that wasn't just AIM? AIM couldn't be port blocked like IRC. Most all schools had already blocked those ports.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by kalleboo on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:57PM (#18731317)
It was definitely IRC. As boys who had a prerogative to tease girls, we installed NetNanny to block launching mIRC (and then the trial period expired and the school computers got infested with registration reminders...). AIM had zero mindshare in Europe at the time, it was all ICQ and later MSN.

Our school had nothing blocked, and the computers weren't locked down at all.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by black-tea on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:14PM (#18727419)
Yep. It's not hard. People are pretty clever and will work things out if they need to. It's just that we hand feed them shit like slack and tell each other that they're surely too dumb to use anything else.
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