[SaberUK]

Full disclosure: i'm being paid to work on InspIRCd for use on the IRC.com network. This is my personal opinion not an official statement on behalf of my employer.

The IRC server software used by Snoonet, InspIRCd, does not contain any functionality for message interception (it doesn't even tell server operators the contents of a message that has matched a spam filter) and at least on the infrastructure I have access to Snoonet does not have any message interception capability either.

[ryanlol]

As an InspIRCd developer you must also be aware that it only takes minutes for anyone to patch an IRC daemon to log chats. I don't think the lack of such a feature in core inspircd indicates anything.

[SaberUK]

Whilst that is true as I have explicitly stated there is no intercept capability on the infrastructure that I have access to. If you're willing to believe some completely unverifiable logs dumped on a paste site over someone with access to IRC.com infrastructure then i'm not really sure what I can say to convince you otherwise.

You can use OTR for private IRC chats and an IRCv3 contributor is currently working on an end-to-end encryption system suitable for use in IRC channels so if you're concerned about your privacy you are welcome to use those.