<s>
BitchX	B-Protocol
is	O
a	O
free	B-Application
IRC	B-Protocol
client	B-Protocol
that	O
has	O
been	O
regarded	O
as	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
ircII-based	O
IRC	B-Protocol
client	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
initial	O
implementation	O
,	O
written	O
by	O
"	O
Trench	O
"	O
and	O
"	O
HappyCrappy	O
"	O
,	O
was	O
a	O
script	B-Language
for	O
the	O
IrcII	B-Protocol
chat	O
client	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
BitchX	B-Protocol
1.1	O
final	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
2004	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
and	O
is	O
a	O
TUI	B-Application
application	I-Application
utilizing	O
ncurses	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
GTK+	B-Application
toolkit	O
support	O
has	O
been	O
dropped	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
works	O
on	O
all	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
operating	I-Operating_System
systems	I-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
is	O
distributed	O
under	O
a	O
BSD	B-Operating_System
license	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
originally	O
based	O
on	O
ircII-EPIC	O
,	O
and	O
eventually	O
it	O
was	O
merged	O
into	O
the	O
EPIC	O
IRC	B-Protocol
client	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
supports	O
IPv6	B-Protocol
,	O
multiple	O
servers	O
and	O
SSL	B-Protocol
,	O
and	O
a	O
subset	O
of	O
UTF-8	O
(	O
characters	O
contained	O
in	O
ISO-8859-1	O
)	O
with	O
an	O
unofficial	O
patch	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
several	O
occasions	O
,	O
BitchX	B-Protocol
has	O
been	O
noted	O
to	O
be	O
a	O
popular	O
IRC	B-Protocol
client	B-Protocol
for	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
systems	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
BitchX	B-Protocol
does	O
not	O
yet	O
support	O
Unicode	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
known	O
that	O
early	O
versions	O
of	O
BitchX	B-Protocol
were	O
vulnerable	O
to	O
a	O
denial-of-service	O
attack	O
in	O
that	O
they	O
could	O
be	O
caused	O
to	O
crash	O
by	O
passing	O
specially-crafted	O
strings	O
as	O
arguments	O
to	O
certain	O
IRC	B-Protocol
commands	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
previous	O
version	O
of	O
BitchX	B-Protocol
,	O
released	O
in	O
2004	O
,	O
has	O
security	O
problems	O
allowing	O
remote	O
IRC	B-Protocol
servers	O
to	O
execute	O
arbitrary	O
code	O
on	O
the	O
client	B-Protocol
's	O
machine	O
(	O
,	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
April	O
26	O
,	O
2009	O
,	O
Slackware	B-Application
removed	O
BitchX	B-Protocol
from	O
its	O
distribution	O
,	O
citing	O
the	O
numerous	O
unresolved	O
security	O
issues	O
.	O
</s>
