As of August 15th, 2011, the Mibbit webchat client is banned from the ext3 network. The reasons for the ban are outlined below.
On August 13th, 2011, an anonymous hacking group had exploited Mibbit’s servers, which granted the hackers root access to Mibbit’s tools server. The hackers then released some of the content they had found: IRC logs, clear text passwords and Mibbit’s Wiki passwords, along with other unimportant files. The logs suggested questionable activity from Mibbit staff and raised the question, “Is Mibbit still logging users without permission?” For the safety of our users, we have indefinitely revoked Mibbit’s access to the network as a whole.
We understand that sometimes, a web IRC client is a necessity, due to lack of a locally installed client. For this reason, we offer an alternative to Mibbit. We run a web IRC client at http://webchat.ext3.net/ which is compiled and run entirely on our own ext3.net servers.
The client is called “Iris“, developed by the Atheme team, and is a fork of qwebirc. It allows for many features which Mibbit does not (the biggest being SASL authentication), and is and always will be completely ad free. There is also a tool which you can use to create a widget for your website or other needs you may have for an integrated web client.
As always, any questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, or otherwise can be directed to any staff member in #ext3.
