Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments
Date	2014-02-25 23:31 -0500
Organization	National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:

> Attacks on Usenet and IRC are both old news, and even though some people have 
> suspected governments of conducting them it hasn't become commonly accepted 
> even among the healthily paranoid that they do, yet.
>
> Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and the rest of that lot are handy for 
> governments, as they can simply be served court orders and censored, used as 
> malware vectors, and so on.  I do see attacks on IRC and Usenet becoming more 
> prevalent, but on the other hand I also think that good intelligence agencies 
> will leave these types of resources alone so as to better gather information. 
> After all, you don't want the boogeymen to start using some web server in 
> China to communicate - I don't think they honor National Security Letters 
> there.
>
> Good post, thanks a lot.
>
>
If it doesn't have an RFC, it likely exists only to make a profit.

   Michael

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2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments xyzzy <stalkers-suck@grr.la> - 2014-02-07 04:33 -0800
  Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-02-07 18:05 +0000
    Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-07 19:33 +0000
      Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments Achsis of Elvis <q.kontinuum@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-13 10:56 +0000
        Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-13 15:02 +0000
          Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-13 18:18 +0000
  Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 14:27 -0800
    Re: 2/6 - IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-25 23:31 -0500

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