On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:11 -0500, Michael J. Flickinger wrote: > Who, just wondering? Bear in mind, Freenode does allow tor if you > connect to their tor hidden node. > > Just curious, are you using TOR?
Freenode only allows clients using a very new authentication scheme that's so far only officially supported in two clients to connect to their Tor node, one of them proprietary (IIRC). It's possible to get another client to work if you spend some time hacking with the python script that implements it. It's also only possible to do this if you connect at least once without Tor. For reference, the IRC client installed by default on Trisquel and gNewSense is incompatible with Freenode's Tor hookup. As such, Freenode should be considered a network hostile to user's privacy.
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