I think TGS meant to send this to the coder-com... Im pretty sure this attitude isnt targetted at me, surely?
(I wasnt the one making the request.. I suggested an alternative... that doesnt mean that Im paranoid and wont use IRC becuase im worried about people finding my username.. hell.. its BlakJak.. its not like its not obvious.) Be a little more careful whom you target with your emails, Brian. Mark. >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sent: 19 Apr 2002 08:35:08 GMT >From: "Brian Gilliford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Mark Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] username in /whois?? please remove! >Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:37:40 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 > > The fact is it is obtainable information regardless. If you don't >want to be found you can do one of two things. Not log in. Or use a >nickname people won't find you under. Theres another option too. Just >don't come on IRC. > > Besides in my opinion if you're worried about "security" that much >I'd suggest you stay off IRC all together. You're prone to attack no matter >what you do. Because as soon as you connect *SOMEONE* will know you have. >As soon as you join a channel even more people will know you're on. And so >on and so forth. > >Brian "TGS" Gilliford >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mark Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:26 PM >Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] username in /whois?? please remove! > > > > ... verify always works, whether your X info is invisible or not. > > > > One thing I would possibly suggest is having it say 'User is logged in to > > X' instead of actually quoting the username. > > > > Mark. > > > > > > At 23:55 18/04/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >You can however, hide yourself a little by doing: > > > > > >/msg x set invisible > > > > > >so > > >-> *x* info <user name> > > >is > > >-X- Unable to view user details (Invisible) > > > > > >instead of: > > > > > >-X- Information about: <user name> (#####) > > >-X- Currently logged on via: > > >-X- nick!ident@host > > >-X- Language: 1 > > >-X- INVISIBLE is Off > > >-X- LAST SEEN: 0 days, 00:07:09 ago. > > > > > >At least once .11 is installed everywhere we'll be able to hide our > > >hosts.. Any info on when it will be deployed? > > > > > >BTW, "set invisible" isn't documented anywhere in X it seems.... > > > > > >-- > > >James Evans > > >aut viam inveniam aut faciam > > >PGP? http://www.lehigh.edu/~jae7/pgpkey.txt > > > > > > >
