On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:01:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Yes of course. A small network of 3 or so machines could probably take > care of that though. So could some well-connected general access irc > proxies, though I'm not sure such a proxy actually exists. That is an accurate description of an IRC server itself. > > There's also the question of trusting irc daemons enough to run them on > > Debian machines. > > Heh, I love irc. :-P This is actually a question of trusting people to correctly configure and deploy IRC daemons on Debian machines. Most vulnerabilities are the result of truly abysmal security policies, and a lack of understanding of how the system actually works (it's horribly counter-intuitive, to the point where running a large network requires some seriously complex scripting to make it manageable). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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