[tor-talk] TAILS: Please include a real IRC client (Pidgin sucks!)

[Jacob Appelbaum]

pwnsauce at Safe-mail.net:
> Please show your support and petition the Tails team to add a real IRC client, other than the multipurpose Pidgin client.

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> 
> A client designed for IRC and not for multipurpose activities. It wouldn't require too much extra space to include irssi or weechat.

I think including irssi with the OTR plugin to Tails would be great.
However, I think irssi doesn't easily torify - I use it on a special
machine with kernel filtering because it doesn't natively support SOCKS5
or SOCKS4A.

All the best,
Jacob