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I wonder if the IRC logs from the Iraq War (round 2) will ever be declassified and released. IRC is used pretty extensively by the military for communications (generally just called "mIRC", since people associate it so strongly with the official military client), and there were a bunch of different channels on different networks to discuss operations in realtime.

http://publicintelligence.net/tactical-chat/



Military client? mIRC is shareware:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC


I think he meant mIRC (the shareware software) is the official IRC client of the military.


yup, from wikipedia:

> mIRC is part of the communication infrastructure of the US military,[15] which includes controlling unmanned airstrikes from the DGS-4 in Ramstein Air Base.[16][17]


Heh, they use the full paid version. I always wondered who KMB got cash from...


Didn't he have like 9 paying users after 15 years or so? Poor guy :) Could have needed some monetization strategy advice


FYI for some reason MalwareBytes treats that link as malicious.




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