full-disclosure - Why is IRC still around?

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Message-ID: <200411231906.iANJ665i005187@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Why is IRC still around? 

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:12:06 GMT, n3td3v said:

> All you guys do on the channel is talk about pimps and whores and

That's what it looks like if you didn't get a copy of the codebook. :)

> other *general chat* stuff. Nothing related to security or hacking is
> discussed (and if it is, its in very general terms) that would merit
> the name *hackphreak*.

"Steganography" - it's not just for JPGs anymore. :)

(Yes, I know it's not as easy to embed a hidden message into linear ascii
text as you might think, because too often the encoding forces an odd word
choice.  That's why there's so *much* trash-talking, to enable something
resembling a usable subchannel bandwidth.. ;)
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