James Hess wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Kobi Shmueli <kobi@dal.net> wrote:
Can you guarantee a user hasn't telnetted into a server and run an IRC client from it? A user can't, that's why I didn't think it would be a big deal. One
Eh? Well, of course a user can. There are thousands of hosting
Let me clarify it for those who missed my point. I quoted:
Can you guarantee that all IRC servers perform SSL/TLS encryption of all traffic between servers, and no non-SSL-connected IRC server is capable of JOINing a user to the channel or effecting it in any manner so as to alter settings or receive traffic from the channel?
Can you guarantee a user hasn't telnetted into a server and run an IRC client from it?
My answer was that a user can't (guarantee that all servers are connected to each other via SSL nor can s/he guarantee another user didn't use telnet to connect to his "secured" IRC session). -Kobi.