begin quote from James Evans on Apr 18, 2002: > 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> (#####) [snip]
Precisely. The idea is you may hide from username-to-nickname mapping (with SET INVISIBLE), but you will always be able to do nickname-to-username mapping (via VERIFY). I don't see this as a security risk, simply knowing one's username does not open him to any attacks. > BTW, "set invisible" isn't documented anywhere in X it seems.... > It is, in the source if nowhere else ;-) -- Alex Badea * Undernet Coder-Com contributer
