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1. Interview With Jarkko Oikarinen – The Inventor Of IRC
   Today we’ve got something very special: An Interview with the creator of IRC himself, Mr. Jarkko Oikarinen. We’ve asked Mr. Oikarinen a few questions about his invention as well as himself – without much further ado lets get straight to the interview.   First, please introduce yourself to our readers (even though you really shouldn’t [...]

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2. InspIRCd Updates & New Website
   After quite a prolonged downtime, the InspIRCd website and Wiki is back up again, although not under its original domain any more but is now hosted on GitHub. There have been new releases in all current branches as well as a new Beta release in the 2.1 branch. Users of the 1.2 versions are strongly [...]

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3. iBash – The IRC Quote Database For Everyone
   iBash is an online IRC quote database where everyone can set up their own IRC quote collection. With this comes the ability to fully manage your quotes – you decide which quote gets approved or rejected, a major point of annoyance with the original bash.org quote database. iBash has been founded in 2011 “after a [...]

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4. Colloquy 2.4 For OS X Released
   The Mac OS X IRC client Colloquy just got updated to version 2.4. The new release is Lion-only and now supports fullscreen IRCing, has SASL support and the dock gets a badge when there are unread private messages and highlights. The integrated “Colloquy Bouncer”, which provides bouncer capabilities to the mobile client counterpart, has had [...]

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5. Atheme NickServ CertFP Vulnerability
   A security vulnerability related to certificate fingerprints has been found in the Atheme IRC services package.   All versions that have CertFP functionality are affected, which are version 5.2.x, 6.x and the current testing release, version 7.x.   The vulnerability is triggered once a NickServ user is dropped or expires that has a CertFP entry [...]

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