"Astute." Dodger observed dryly. His opinion of the runner dropped. One of the unwritten rules of the not-place was that a decker was expected to use a virtual image of his person rather than his usual Matrix icon. "Hubris." his sometime-partner Jenny called the affectation. He preferred to think of it as pride in accomplishment. Besides, one’s colors were more properly reserved for the real work of running the Matrix. More practically, a client might later recognize a decker’s workings if he knew the icon under which the decker operated. The decker’s appearance was harder to trace, for there were no physical traces to collect, nor could a client retrieve an image from the not-place. The client would have only memory, and that could be made less reliable if the decker’s features were slightly and subtly altered as Dodger had done. "Is that a problem?"