Will there be a way to set up IRC and bypass this?
reddit / irc

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dMenche · 2023-03-27 19:29

Besides setting up all of a networks servers outside of their
jurisdiction?  IRC servers can read all the messages that pass through
them. IRC is *not* end to end encrypted.

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SqualorTrawler · 2023-03-27 21:03

This was how Usenet was destroyed.

Invoking child pornography in any discussion seems to provide a
plausible reason to shred any and all civil liberties in the minds of
lawmakers.

Expect it to be used more to justify more and more intrusions into
your privacy.

Which is, perhaps, another reason to hate child pornographers, as if
we needed one.  Since the terrorism excuse has faded some, they're
going to be leaning on the child predator thing for awhile until the
next cycle rolls around.

As /u/dMenche points out, IRC is far from a private medium.  It's also
an ideal sort of honeypot for tracking all manner of activity.

[It has been foretold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_
the_Infocalypse).

The link you provide points out some interesting aspects of these
policies:

> If an algorithms classifies the content of a message as suspicious,
your private or intimate photos may be viewed by staff and contractors
of international corporations and police authorities. Also your
private nude photos may be looked at by people not known to you, in
whose hands your photos are not safe

> Child protection organizations are exerting massive pressure. All
parliamentary groups are in favor of indiscriminate messaging and chat
control, with the exception of Greens/EFA and the Left. The adoption
of the legislation could take place in March.

We live in a time of moral panic.  The time was ripe to make this
move.

https://www.eff.org/issues/eff-europe

If you've always been a supporter, in principle, of the [EFF](https://
www.charitynavigator.org/ein/043091431#:~:text=Rating%20Information&te
xt=This%20charity's%20score%20is%2093,it%20a%20Four%2DStar%20rating.),
this might be a time to consider making a yearly cash donation.

For those in the US, we know there are people who would love to copy
this -- who would love to abolish all private, ephemeral conversations
forever.

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evilgold · 2023-03-27 21:32

Use matrix instead of IRC if you want encrpypted group chats. Irc does
not use encryption for messages.

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FeyAnubis_10 · 2023-03-28 04:18

Yes, I think there might be a way. Consider setting up your own IRC
server and make it accessible through TOR. I remember seeing nullbyte
do something similar in one of their videos.

[Article](https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/host-deep-web-irc-
server-for-more-anonymous-chatting-0180682/) and [video
tutorial](https://youtu.be/67f9iptWqt0). More alternatives include
using decentralized technologies like Matrix.

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carbolymer · 2023-03-28 10:11

https://wiki.znc.in/Otr

https://otr.im/clients.html

But still it will leak metadata - with whom you are talking and when