[nycbug-talk] irc server

Ray ray
Wed Feb 11 03:55:48 EST 2004


On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 06:00:40PM -0800, Gerald wrote:
> Why do so few people delve in to silc instead of IRC?

That's not a bad idea.  I've been wanting to try this out for a
while.  This would be the perfect excuse for me to try it out.

> Not that a public channel like nycbug would have any secure
> conversations.

Does it matter?  If it were up to me, everything would be
encrypted--PGP/GPG encrypted E-mail, https all the time, sftp, etc.
I don't see why we should only encrypt ``sensitive'' data--why
should we give crackers such a limited set of data to work on?

> I'm personally surprised that more people don't use silc. 

As am I, though the major reason is probably a lack of applications.

-Ray-




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