I was browsing the group signed in under my normal, regular gmail email address, as usual, as webado @ gmail.com . This is the only identity I use in any case.
I was in a thread, decided to post, that failed, as it's been happpening a lot lately.
But the strangest thing was that I suddenly saw, where my identity shoudl have been showing as webado @ gmail.com , a totally unkownemail addy: alexekatia @ oi.com.br
How the heck did my session get mixed up with somebody else's?
I don't know who that is, never seen this email address in my life.
No idea if it belongs to somebody whose threads I have been reading recently.
But this all makes me question many things concerning both Google Groups and Gmail now.
How and why should this even be possible?
I'd say it's quite worrisome, especially if it were to happen in Gmail. One moment you are in your own gmail account, the next you are in somebody else's? What if messages were to get scrambled and end up dispersed across different gmail accounts?
So I relaly hope somebody investigates this kind of incident. I'm sure I'm not the only one it has ever happened to.
If it happens again, take a screen shot / print screen. That will give you something to show google. This is a serious security hole in Google if it does continue to happen.
> If it happens again, take a screen shot / print screen. That will give > you something to show google. This is a serious security hole in > Google if it does continue to happen.
> On Jun 29, 11:55 am, webado wrote:
> > This is nuts.
> > It just hapepned again. > > Got my email replaced with laketilton @ gmail.com , whoever that is.
> > Creepy.
> > On Jun 29, 2:11 pm, webado wrote:
> > > Bump! > > > Sorry!
> > > I would like this thread to be seen by Googlers soon, as it's > > > worrying me a lot and it should worry others too.
> > > It's like identity theft or identity loss for that matter.- Hide quoted text -
> > If it happens again, take a screen shot / print screen. That will give > > you something to show google. This is a serious security hole in > > Google if it does continue to happen.
> > On Jun 29, 11:55 am, webado wrote:
> > > This is nuts.
> > > It just hapepned again. > > > Got my email replaced with laketilton @ gmail.com , whoever that is.
> > > Creepy.
> > > On Jun 29, 2:11 pm, webado wrote:
> > > > Bump! > > > > Sorry!
> > > > I would like this thread to be seen by Googlers soon, as it's > > > > worrying me a lot and it should worry others too.
> > > > It's like identity theft or identity loss for that matter.- Hide quoted text -
> > If it happens again, take a screen shot / print screen. That will give > > you something to show google. This is a serious security hole in > > Google if it does continue to happen.
> > On Jun 29, 11:55 am, webado wrote:
> > > This is nuts.
> > > It just hapepned again. > > > Got my email replaced with laketilton @ gmail.com , whoever that is.
> > > Creepy.
> > > On Jun 29, 2:11 pm, webado wrote:
> > > > Bump! > > > > Sorry!
> > > > I would like this thread to be seen by Googlers soon, as it's > > > > worrying me a lot and it should worry others too.
> > > > It's like identity theft or identity loss for that matter.- Hide quoted text -
> Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > priority issue.
> Now let's just keep fingers crossed that it gets fixed quickly and > tightly.
> On Jun 29, 4:01 pm, Susan Moskwa wrote:
> > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > priority issue.- Hide quoted text -
> I wounder who is better at CSS Webado or her Clone?
> On Jun 30, 5:12 am, webado wrote:
> > Thank you Susan!
> > Now let's just keep fingers crossed that it gets fixed quickly and > > tightly.
> > On Jun 29, 4:01 pm, Susan Moskwa wrote:
> > > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > > priority issue.- Hide quoted text -
> Watch it Igor, if you misbehave I will blame you for this hijacking of > identity ;)
> On Jun 29, 4:16 pm, ivb wrote:
> > Webado you have a clone! > > <__>
> > I wounder who is better at CSS Webado or her Clone?
> > On Jun 30, 5:12 am, webado wrote:
> > > Thank you Susan!
> > > Now let's just keep fingers crossed that it gets fixed quickly and > > > tightly.
> > > On Jun 29, 4:01 pm, Susan Moskwa wrote:
> > > > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > > > priority issue.- Hide quoted text -
> Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > priority issue.
Thanks, Susan.
It may be unrelated, but early evening I had a post rejected: "An error occurred ... please try later".
I tried a few times, then backed out and was immediately asked to sign in again. I did, and all was well.
> > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > priority issue.
> Thanks, Susan.
> It may be unrelated, but early evening I had a post rejected: "An > error occurred ... please try later".
> I tried a few times, then backed out and was immediately asked to sign > in again. I did, and all was well.
> > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > priority issue.
> Thanks, Susan.
> It may be unrelated, but early evening I had a post rejected: "An > error occurred ... please try later".
> I tried a few times, then backed out and was immediately asked to sign > in again. I did, and all was well.
> Phil, you get that from time to time! > The nasty errors when you try to post...
> It maybe because you tried to post many posts one after another. > So signing out and back in usually resolves this.
> Or even going back to the main index and coming back to the thread to > post again also works.
> Igor
> On Jun 30, 8:20 am, Phil Payne wrote:
> > On Jun 29, 9:01 pm, Susan Moskwa wrote:
> > > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > > priority issue.
> > Thanks, Susan.
> > It may be unrelated, but early evening I had a post rejected: "An > > error occurred ... please try later".
> > I tried a few times, then backed out and was immediately asked to sign > > in again. I did, and all was well.- Hide quoted text -
> Actually I feel all of these are bugs related to the cache.
> On Jun 29, 7:26 pm, ivb wrote:
> > Phil, you get that from time to time! > > The nasty errors when you try to post...
> > It maybe because you tried to post many posts one after another. > > So signing out and back in usually resolves this.
> > Or even going back to the main index and coming back to the thread to > > post again also works.
> > Igor
> > On Jun 30, 8:20 am, Phil Payne wrote:
> > > On Jun 29, 9:01 pm, Susan Moskwa wrote:
> > > > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > > > priority issue.
> > > Thanks, Susan.
> > > It may be unrelated, but early evening I had a post rejected: "An > > > error occurred ... please try later".
> > > I tried a few times, then backed out and was immediately asked to sign > > > in again. I did, and all was well.- Hide quoted text -
As Susan noted, we (and other Googlers) escalated this very quickly, and thanks for the heads-up.
I believe that this issue should be completely resolved now; if you still see this happening, please add a note to the thread and we'll keep an eye out over the weekend.
That's not the cache I'm talking about, Igor. I'm talking about the phenomenon peculiar only to the group format where you post and nothing appears for quite some time varying between a minute to sometimes as much as 10 minutes, no matter how the browsr is set and how many refreshes you do. In this time wires can get crossed I imagine. At the very least I myself lose track of where I was ;)
Adam, you can be sure that at the frist sign of anyhting weird I'll be sounding the alarm.
But I'm sure you got it nipped and I'm so glad and relieved.
> I have my browser set to get a new page every time! > So no cache issue here.
> On Jun 30, 8:36 am, webado wrote:
> > Actually I feel all of these are bugs related to the cache.
> > On Jun 29, 7:26 pm, ivb wrote:
> > > Phil, you get that from time to time! > > > The nasty errors when you try to post...
> > > It maybe because you tried to post many posts one after another. > > > So signing out and back in usually resolves this.
> > > Or even going back to the main index and coming back to the thread to > > > post again also works.
> > > Igor
> > > On Jun 30, 8:20 am, Phil Payne wrote:
> > > > On Jun 29, 9:01 pm, Susan Moskwa wrote:
> > > > > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > > > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > > > > priority issue.
> > > > Thanks, Susan.
> > > > It may be unrelated, but early evening I had a post rejected: "An > > > > error occurred ... please try later".
> > > > I tried a few times, then backed out and was immediately asked to sign > > > > in again. I did, and all was well.- Hide quoted text -
I will not pretend that I could in any way hijack your network traffic...
But I am under the impression that the internet is absolutely insecure in every possible way you look at it...
SSL is the closest anyone has ever come to achieving a false sense of security... and even that is an open source solution waiting for someone to master and abuse... if your can create something with numbers you can deconstruct something with numbers so long if you have all of the numbers...
Spyware? Packet sniffing? really I am not a cracker... but someone surely is... in fact... anyone with access to any sort of priviledged google traffic is bound to abuse it at some point or another....
( this is my propaganda post... no ratings please... my philosophies are neither good or bad... they just exist )
> That's not the cache I'm talking about, Igor. I'm talking about the > phenomenon peculiar only to the group format where you post and > nothing appears for quite some time varying between a minute to > sometimes as much as 10 minutes, no matter how the browsr is set and > how many refreshes you do. In this time wires can get crossed I > imagine. At the very least I myself lose track of where I was ;)
> Adam, you can be sure that at the frist sign of anyhting weird I'll be > sounding the alarm.
> But I'm sure you got it nipped and I'm so glad and relieved.
> On Jun 29, 9:24 pm, ivb wrote:
> > I have my browser set to get a new page every time! > > So no cache issue here.
> > On Jun 30, 8:36 am, webado wrote:
> > > Actually I feel all of these are bugs related to the cache.
> > > On Jun 29, 7:26 pm, ivb wrote:
> > > > Phil, you get that from time to time! > > > > The nasty errors when you try to post...
> > > > It maybe because you tried to post many posts one after another. > > > > So signing out and back in usually resolves this.
> > > > Or even going back to the main index and coming back to the thread to > > > > post again also works.
> > > > Igor
> > > > On Jun 30, 8:20 am, Phil Payne wrote:
> > > > > On Jun 29, 9:01 pm, Susan Moskwa wrote:
> > > > > > Webado, thanks for reporting this problem. Just wanted to let you guys > > > > > > know that the Groups engineers are looking into this as a high- > > > > > > priority issue.
> > > > > Thanks, Susan.
> > > > > It may be unrelated, but early evening I had a post rejected: "An > > > > > error occurred ... please try later".
> > > > > I tried a few times, then backed out and was immediately asked to sign > > > > > in again. I did, and all was well.- Hide quoted text -
> Phil, you get that from time to time! > The nasty errors when you try to post...
Oh, I get it all the time - several times a day.
But usually it just goes away when you retry a couple of times. On this occasion it wouldn't and I discovered the apparent reason was that Google had forgotten who I was. That's the first time I've ever seen that. Losing your own identity is not the same as acquiring someone else's, but the cause might be related.
True, this also seemed to happen a few times yesterday. And probably a variation of the same problem. And while it looked at first like I'd maybe lost my login cookie, it wasn't. Clicking the Login showed me my id and I only needed to provide my password.
It hasn't happened again after my earlier problem was reported as fixed, so here's me believing, not just hoping, this is all under control. :)
> > Phil, you get that from time to time! > > The nasty errors when you try to post...
> Oh, I get it all the time - several times a day.
> But usually it just goes away when you retry a couple of times. On > this occasion it wouldn't and I discovered the apparent reason was > that Google had forgotten who I was. That's the first time I've ever > seen that. Losing your own identity is not the same as acquiring > someone else's, but the cause might be related.
> > Phil, you get that from time to time! > > The nasty errors when you try to post...
> Oh, I get it all the time - several times a day.
> But usually it just goes away when you retry a couple of times. On > this occasion it wouldn't and I discovered the apparent reason was > that Google had forgotten who I was. That's the first time I've ever > seen that. Losing your own identity is not the same as acquiring > someone else's, but the cause might be related.
> As Susan noted, we (and other Googlers) escalated this very quickly, > and thanks for the heads-up.
> I believe that this issue should be completely resolved now; if you > still see this happening, please add a note to the thread and we'll > keep an eye out over the weekend.
