[Konversation-devel] [Bug 217889] Konversation spamming personal information by default without user consent

[Eike Hein]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217889





--- Comment #3 from Eike Hein <hein kde org>  2009-12-08 23:52:53 ---
Ok, here's how this works: When you leave an IRC channel (by closing the
channel tab, or the connection, or quit the program - which closes the
connection), the IRC *server* will send a message to other clients attending
that channel, informing them that you have left. The raw format of this
message, as sent by the server to the other's clients under the hood, contains
the hostmask of the client that left:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostmask

... and many clients will include this hostmask in the formatted version of the
message they show to the user.

As you can read on the page linked above, part of an IRC hostmask is the
"ident":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident

Specifically, about IRC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident#Uses

As explained there, unless you have an actual ident daemon running, the IRC
server will fall back to a value provided by the IRC client.

This corresponds to the "Ident" field on the "Advanced" tab of Konversation's
Identity settings dialog. Konversation - and by far the majority of IRC clients
I'm aware of, i.e. it's the established convention - fills in this field with
your system user name by default, which I take to be "Pascal".

So in fact, the particular "dumping of information as I leave channels" you're
concerned about actually has nothing to do with the system account Full Name
field.

That said, the "Real name" field in the Identity settings is automatically
filled in with the contents of the system account Full Name field, which is
available to other IRC users via the "whois" command.

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