IRSSI 0.8.4 had a backdoor

Aonoa · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589

It's on www.irssi.org apparently since mid-march a backdoor has been in their configure script..

JefP@@ · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject:

I use x-chat .. no backdoors in there, I hope...

Scandium · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 7:23 pm Post subject:

In fact, thats a big thing...I think it's "great" in some way to modify the configure script and then keep on people downloading the source building a binary from source which has a backdoor included...(of course I don't mean "great" as "great" in this case

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But not they are signed with gpg keys AFAIK and that should not happen again...

I'll wait for the irssi GUI becoming a more advanced stage and then we have the perfect text client + GUI - if irssi GUI will not be that great I'll go with xchat 1.9/2.0 (as I do now, but prefer irssi a bit)