Sunday, November 30, 2008

Identify Invisible Person In Gmail

Lots of people misuse invisible feature inorder to even avoid individuals. I wrote an article about yahoo invisible hack some time back which created lots of response among my readers. This time I am going to explain about gmail invisible bug that can be exploited from “off the record feature“. Below are the steps involved, but there are some limitation.
Step 1
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Set the target user as off the record while he/she is online. This can be done by simply clicking on the option in the chat window.


Step 2
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Try sending an IM when he/she is invisible or offline.
If he/she is invisible he/she will receive message. If he/she is offline you will receive anerror “did not receive your chat”.
This hack will only work if you mark the target user as off record when he/she is online. It is a limitation.
How does it work?

When the chat is off the record, it will no longer stored in the gmail account.
When you send IM to an invisible / offline user it will be delivered by default. At the receiving end the IM will receive as a pop in form of chat window if the user is invisible. If the user is offline it will receive as an email in the inbox

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