Re: IRC in corporate enviroment

[AK <platsakos () gmail com>]

Using IRC at work paves the way for client-side exploits (and other
information leaks). On the other hand, freenode and such, can really be
helpful for the R&D people. Before allowing IRC to be used I would throw
a word of caution of not letting company resources ending up on pastebin
or someplace like that (think along the lines "hi guys, the following
paste aint working at line 134" where said paste is your company "secret
sauce" recipe. From a technical viewpoing, IRC can be easily isolated
network-wise and running it from a dedicated up-to-date firewalled VM
can alleviate a lot of issues (cloudburst-like exploits notwithstanding).

On 06/18/2011 09:47 PM, Dennis Dayman wrote:
> Looking for some pros cons to having IRC connectivity in a corporate environment. Our R&D guys would like to join 
> some coding channels to get ideas and help, but we are hesitating to allow them for fear of a possible hole being 
> opened via an IRC channel and client.
>
> thoughts on pro's or cons?
>
> what is the beat way to implement if it is deemed ok?
>
> -Dennis
>
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