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| linuxtech | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Cloaks implies that a cloak of the form "other/cloak/ubuntu.nickname" would not be a Official Ubuntu Community Member. Can I get one of those cloaks without being a member? | 19:47 |
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| TheLordOfTime | linuxtech: that's still an official "ubuntu member" cloak for all intents and purposes | 19:48 |
| TheLordOfTime | linuxtech: so unless you're an Ubuntu member that cloak's not available to you. All the cloak formats listed there are ubuntu cloaks. All except the bot one i've seen on members. | 19:49 |
| linuxtech | OK Thanks, I guess I will have to wait until I go through the process of becoming a member. | 19:50 |
| linuxtech | Or get one from someplace else like freenode or prgmr.com. | 19:50 |
| Fuchs | you can get an unaffiliated one from #freenode | 19:52 |
| Fuchs | the above mentioned format is a dual cloak, they are highly discouraged and usually not given anymore. And in addition to that, to get the ubuntu part one still has to be a member. | 19:53 |
| TheLordOfTime | ^ that | 19:54 |
| linuxtech | I am kind of dubious about the benefits of a cloak as it is security through obscurity. And it's not like I am hiding who I am my hostname as cp.linuxtech.org... I look at the cloak as more of an advertisement of I support the project. | 19:56 |
| Fuchs | It is not security at all | 19:56 |
| Fuchs | and cloaks are never advertised by freenode staff as that | 19:56 |
| Fuchs | they are here to show affiliation (or lack thereof) with a group / project | 19:57 |
| TheLordOfTime | exactly, they don't have any "security" benefits really, at all. | 20:04 |
| Unit193 | I think the one they say is more for security is connecting over tor. | 20:05 |
| Fuchs | yes. | 20:06 |
| TheLordOfTime | indeed. | 20:07 |
| Fuchs | (which, funny sidenote, applies a gateway cloak) | 20:07 |
| Unit193 | tor-sasl, iirc. | 20:08 |
| TheLordOfTime | mhm | 20:09 |
| TheLordOfTime | gateway/tor-sasl/NICKSERV | 20:09 |
| TheLordOfTime | where NICKSERV is the nickserv account primary nick | 20:09 |
| TheLordOfTime | (in my case, that would be "lordoftime") | 20:09 |
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