Ask HN: How secure/private is IRC?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irc#Modern_IRC

If you use it through ssh/SSL it is ok.

The first 2 things that come to mind: Whoever can connect, can log. Even though an authenticated user's host may be masked, in the server logs they might appear in plaintext.