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Secure Connection

03 Oct

As IRC data is transmitted in plain text, what is send from your PC to the IRC server can be captured or recorded by your ISP. For example,

[!})B
EHo@#Q).Th=PWPRIVMSG hocchan :xdcc send #101

can be captured by the ISP. What the above says is that the user is sending an IRC message to hocchan to request for xdcc pack #101. If SSL is used to connect to the IRC server, then any information that is exchanged between your PC and the IRC server will be encrypted.

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