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Oh, forgot to mention. If you use a web client or use tor, that will obscure the connection info by the nature of that connection ;). Jon Gorman On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Jon Gorman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> You can also choose to anonymize yourself by choosing a nick that best represents something you're interested >> in or identify with that is not used on other social spheres. It really is completely up to you on what you feel most >> comfortable with and there is typically no hard/fast rules. > > One thing to keep in mind is that your nick might be anonymous, but > irc in general is done "in the clear" and some connection information > will be published by default. I think that's partially a legacy of how > long IRC has been around. > > When someone logs into a channel you'll see something like > [log in to unmask] There's ways to "cloak" that id by > registering that nick and donating some money to the organization that > runs freenode, pdpc. That's a bit trickier to setup. The user > registration faq of freenode can be useful: > http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#userregistration. > > So when someone who is registered and "cloaked" logs in, the > connection will display something like [log in to unmask] has > joined the channel. - I can't remember the exactg string). > > So just know that if someone is logging the channel (which is > possible, there's plenty of clients and ways to do it) and you come in > several times with different nicks but the same network address > they'll know it's likely the same person. > > Jon Gorman