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  • (Score: 1) by ancientt on Wednesday March 12 2014, @12:23AM

    by ancientt (40) <ancientt@yahoo.com> on Wednesday March 12 2014, @12:23AM (#14954) Homepage Journal

    Huh. I guess I never thought of that. Here I was just thinking of the legal ramifications of having a bunch of potential legal problems with my channel and needing to be able to preserve data for the Feds. Good thing AC is here to point out the real dangers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:03AM (#14985)

    Legal ramifications of legal problems? That's a lot of legal. It is just...the luxury edition has so much more legal. It saddens me to think of you missing out.

    But anyway, you can still run a bot so you can hand over the logs to the feds, even on freenode. It's just that I don't see the connection between that and turning off the server when there's a data breach somewhere, which is what I was rejoining.

  • (Score: 1) by Taco Cowboy on Wednesday March 12 2014, @11:41AM

    by Taco Cowboy (3489) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @11:41AM (#15190)

    AC was talking about using freenode (or equivalent service) and then that service got hacked and hackers got hold of our passwords and stuffs.

    That's a danger.

    Running our own IRC does not negate _that_ danger, though, as hackers who can hack freenode also can hack pipedot or any other domain name that we end up using, and if they are good enough, they may still get away with the paswords and stuffs.