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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31348896

There are some era-appropriate limitations, though

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[โ€“] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure IRC hasn't gone anywhere. I have no idea if it has kept up with modern security practices or not, though.

[โ€“] JustSo@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

You can do e2e encryption over IRC iirc. SASL (or something newer at this point for all I know.) Can't really recommend it when defederated matrix servers exist as a modern alternative.

Buuuut you can run no-log encrypted IRC over TOR without hitting an exit node last time I checked, which is pretty comfy. Gotta trust your admins tho. Still super suboptimal compared to defed matrix using a non-default ident server.