If you need to start using fuzzers to prove a point then yes you win the argument that 'everything is insecure' while completely missing the point being made about specific applications having massive and easily exploitable security holes in them.įact is, back in the mid-90s mIRC deserved its reputation.

Breaking something with a fuzzer isn't even remotely in the same league as a feature which lets users auto-download config files into the application's directory nor the other mIRC bug you highlighted. So it wasn't around in the era of when mIRC had a bad reputation.Ĥ. BitchX is actually a relatively late-comer to the scene. It's first release wasn't until something like the mid-00's.

BitchX didn't even didn't exist 'back in the day' as you're referencing. (BitchX these days is a lot more secure from what I understand).ģ. So most people who cared stuck with Irssi. You're also just talking about the early versions of BitchX which were widely known as being insecure. There are a whole plethora of other IRC clients out there yet you highlighted just the one client.Ģ. All your examples of 'all irc clients' are just of BitchX.

I really don't think you're comment is a fair counter argument:ġ.

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