Re: And now somethng totally different Thursday, 22-Oct-98 04:02:42 In a sense it is...there's always the hacker credo of "never tell a [flesh | meat| personal] friend of your exploits...it is the surest way to be caught". Likewise, telling of your activities on IRC (or posting a web page) leaves you activity open for monitoring by others...and again, potential for being caught. The most successful underground figure is one whose activities are never even suspected of having taken place, let alone knowing who did them. Also a threat is idle banter/chatter/etc, in emails or in chat room. You may reveal more than you mean to (or you may mean to reveal more than you mean to reveal, a red herring...), especially after a few of those Martini-Wodkas (or, worse, the true Martinis which are not watered down with Tonic Water ;). _m