At 8:07 PM 4/23/94 +0200, saouli @
math .
ethz .
ch wrote:
>I would like to comment a bit about irc, since more of the personns
>that up to now did comment on that have a very scares view of what Internet
>Relayed Chat (and not Internet Remote Chat).
>
>The system has been first written in 1988, and still used in its basics the
>same
>way as 8 years ago. No fundamental changes have been brought.
>
>A good rethinking wouldn't be bad at especially since we now have around 5000
>users at peek time.
>
>The client systems that are proposed do not all support the DCC features,
>the irc client doesn't the emacs clients do not, the perl clients do partially
>implement such features.
>
>I do not see the point to be worried about young users using add-on scripts
>they
>don't even know something about. I think that most of the "lusers" do use
>scripts that they don't understand and they don't even read. And I wonder
>if everyone goes onto each piece of code he is compiling to see if there is
>no hiden troyan.
>
>It is for sure something open lacking of security mechanism, but it is
>certainly
>not the biggest danger. And if you really want to be sure that your users don't
>fool around too much on the internet then simply setup a gateway-leaf
>server that would only enable your local client to be connected to it.
>
>And as for everything IRC is depending on the quality of the material the users
>do provide...(maybe it is a question of education afterall????)
>
The activity was at our New Delhi, India office, and they were watching
real-time commentary of the India-Pakistan cricket test match. I had been
tolerating the previous occasional use of IRC as there was only one user
and the pattern was consistent. This incident made its use more widespread
and inbound IP connections to high port numbers can't be distinguished from
people setting up telnet daemons on high port numbers.
Many thanks to the person who suggested zapping ports 6667 and 194, it
seems to have done the trick.
I'm not so worried about our users fooling around on the Internet, I'm
worried about the Internet fooling around with our users.
Al
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