Evading Java Restricitons

At the end of a thoughtful article on the future of nuclear war, J.B. Wiesner and H.F. York concluded that: "Both sides in the arms race are.confronted by the dilemma of steadily increasing military power and steadily decreasing national security. It is our considered professional judgment that this dilemma has no technical solution. If the great powers continue to look for solutions in the area of science and technology only, the result will be to worsen the situation.''

I would like to focus your attention not on the subject of the article (national security in a nuclear world) but on the kind of conclusion they reached, namely that there is no technical solution to the problem. An implicit and almost universal assumption of discussions published in professional and semipopular scientific journals is that the problem under discussion has a technical solution. A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

-- Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons"

Adding new protection mechanisms would disable these scripts. However, these safeguards would also take a large amount of time to implement and would inconvenience legitimate Java users. Additionally, there are legal problems with modifying some of the software used by on our servers.

Technically, it would be possible for us to lock down the clients pretty well (though not perfectly)...

We felt that we should maintain a level of trust in our users, as we always have in the past. This means that we trust you not to abuse this service that we are still offering at absolutely no cost to you. We are glad that we are still able to provide it to our users, even if limited. You can always connect through our website to talk to your friends.

Really, what would be the point in evading the Java restrictions? Java chat is easy to use, and it allows you to chat with your friends just as mIRC and other clients do. We understand that some of our users feel that using mIRC or other clients is required to chat on IRC; we expect to lose some users due to the recent changes. However, we ask that you please understand and respect our reasons for placing these restrictions (it hurts us as much as it hurts you). There are many networks that allow connections from all clients.

If you have any questions about the recent changes, or if you would like to know more about using Java chat and configuring it for your own website, feel free to email us at . If you would like to know more about the projects we are working on, email us at

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