If your feeling paranoid you can use SSL to connect to Maddshark on port 7029.
Clients we know work are:
/server -m -e irc.maddshark.com 7029
Or
/server -m irc.maddshark.com +7029
/server -ssl irc.maddshark.com 7029
Please Note We do not use a valid SSL certificate, so you must set your client to accept invalid ones ```