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Privacy Policy updates - New accounts now havethe flag PRIVATE turned on by default, all old accounts havethis flag turned on forcefully ONCE as of now. This means thatthe mail address used for registration is no longer visible bydefault to other users, only IRCOps.

2020 staff election results - thanks toSteve McIntyre (Sledge), Matt Trout (mst), and Alexander Færøy (ahf)for running the elections as counters this year.

2019 staff election results - thanks toDan Christensen (opello) and Steve McIntyre (Sledge)for once again running the elections as counters this year.

We have updated our Privacy Policy to mention thatwe scan connecting hosts for known vulnerabilities and open proxies, andthat we use the EFnet RBL. This was erroneously omitted previously.

2018 staff election results - thanks toAlexander Færøy (ahf), Dan Christensen (opello), and Steve McIntyre(Sledge) for once again running the elections as counters this year.

Late yesterday evening (Thursday 28 June 2018) OFTC staff became aware of successful unauthorized access to a numberof OFTC user accounts. All evidence points to the unauthorized access being the result of a combination of weakaccount passwords and an attacker potentially using credential dumps from other online services.

We welcome new staff member Unit193 on board!

OFTC has a Privacy Policy now. Please review it foranything that you might not like. Feedback is welcome on #oftc and [email protected].

We welcome new staff member pastly on board!

On May 7th, irc6.oftc.net will no longer include A records. If youare using this DNS name to connect to OFTC from an IPv4-only host,you will want to update your client to use irc.oftc.net.