Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 14th Jun 2010 23:58 UTC
Recently, the Linux version of UnrealIRCd was discovered to have had a Trojan worm its way into the source code. Even more embarrassing for the developers of Unreal is that the Trojan's been holding open the backdoor in the source code since November of 2009-- not very recently. And, of course, bloggers and press in general are taking the opportunity of another breach in Linux security to point out doomsday devices that don't really exist.
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Sorry, but Aristocracies is absolutely right. He has provided data to back-up the claim that the daemon is popular in its field, and (as he stated) even if the numbers of servers aren't large, the clients would be more considerable (Wikipedia has some estimate of a half-million IRC clients).
He is also correct that you went off on several tangents unrelated to the topic of potential impact of this vulnerability, calling IRC obscure, anyone who installed this incompetent, a few guesses based on total IP space, etc.
Your argument is appears incredibly weak compared to his, you may want to stop discussing this if you can't produce better formed responses that are actually on-topic.