jessekeys writes "Two days ago, through an article on TechCrunch, it came to the attention of the community that a service logs conversations of public IRC channels and put them into a database. I'm talking about IRSeeK.com, a Full-Text IRC Search Engine.
What is especially shocking for the community is that the logging bots are very hard to identify. They have human-like nicks, connect via anonymous Tor nodes and authenticate as mIRC clients. IRSeeK never asked for permission and violates the privacy terms of networks and users. A lot of chatters we're deeply disturbed finding themselves on the search engine in logs which could date back to 2005.
As a result, Freenode, the largest FOSS IRC network in existence, immediately banned all tor connections while the community gathered and set up a public wiki page to share knowledge and news about IRSeeK. The demands are clear: remove all existing logs and stop covert operations in our channels and networks.
Right now, the IRSeeK search is unavaible as there are talks talking place with Freenode Staff." Link to Original Source
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