[lcabral]

I was pretty unaware of this drama(not a freenode user) So I found me this summary to fill me in on the details (hopefully mostly true) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee... This together with the freenode main page/blog (a very defensive one side view of the occurrences) leads to understand the freenode infrastructure/entity is compromised. I see this as turning into a worst case scenario of a free service that gets taken over and you can no longer trust it to secure your data.

[SilverRed]

What data were you trusting with freenode? It's almost all public and often logged to a public web server. So you had PMs and your irc password on there. IRC has never been a place for secure communication.

[avereveard]

yeah worst case was when freelists was acquired and then all the groups emails where suddenly indexed and made public in their tentative to become a web hub. those had a supposition of privacy, albeit minimal as it was not a specifically secure server, it was definitely not public.