Detect Invisible Users on Google Talk Using a Bug on Gmail Chat

August 04, 2008 | | 11 comments »

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Our reader, Anirudh Mehta, discovered a bug in Google Talk’s invisible status feature available in its Gmail Chat version. If use smartly, you can figure out if the girl next door is really invisible or avoiding you.

Here are steps:

  1. Set the chat as off the record with target user (how?). This can be done only when the other user is online. (need help?)
  2. Now try sending chat to that user when he is invisible or offline.
  3. If he is invisible, then he will receive chat.
  4. But if he Is offline, then you will receive error “username did not receive your chat”.
Continue reading : Bug in Google Talk’s Invisible Status Feature

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11 comments

  1. Anonymous // 22 October, 2008 20:39  

    wow. thanks for that.. will try if it works..

  2. Anonymous // 28 October, 2008 23:06  

    It works Man n its great though there are sum restrictions but hey [b]sumthin is better than Nothing.[b]
    Million Thnx.

  3. pratap // 12 December, 2008 17:30  

    it's not completely OK.

  4. Anonymous // 21 December, 2008 08:44  

    i want to kno abt the invisible users on gmail chat withour sending any msg to him/her and without going "off the record". means just a scanner which can detect invisible users. is thr any..???

  5. Sangesh // 26 December, 2008 11:49  

    I'm not sure if this works or not but I hope it will work. I'm looking forward for this.

  6. praveen // 01 April, 2009 07:08  

    it doent work

  7. Anonymous // 01 April, 2009 08:08  

    it works!

  8. Marcos // 06 April, 2009 05:50  

    ohhh great.. and why don´t you say "hello , i am trying to know if you are online, i am a stupid" .. come on !! this sucks.

  9. Abhimanyu // 06 May, 2009 10:18  

    you can also find some extra features on the labs version of other Google products which allows you to make yourself invisible but it does not always override the gtalk client software if you have that installed
    http://mwolk.com/blog/how-to-stay-and-chat-invisible-and-as-offline-in-gtalk/

  10. sharath // 22 May, 2009 09:49  

    finally a way to detect invisible user in gmail without sending them any message, check out my blog

    http://sharathb814.blogspot.com/2009/05/find-invisible-users-in-gmail-gtalk.html

    Thanks,
    Sharath

  11. Bharath // 07 October, 2009 10:42  

    It works dude.. Nice.. "Every thing can be cracked.." This is proved yet again..

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