That being the said the irc one was hilarious...
And here was me thinking they used private IRC servers, PGP, and other, you know, private methods, when they don't want to be overheard.
"I'll set up an alarm to alert us if either name [chat handle] enters an IRC channel".
That's one hell of an alarm, that scans in real time all the IRC servers and channels out there.
That being the said the irc one was hilarious...