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GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients

Posted by timothy on from the careful-who-sees-you-polishing-the-resume dept.

mystikkman writes "In what is a serious bug, GMail Chat/GTalk/Google Hangouts is sending messages to unintended recipients. ZDNet has confirmed first-hand that the glitch is present within Google Apps for Business accounts, including those that have not yet switched over to Google's new Hangouts platform. Messages appear to be visible on the mobile version of Hangouts. There are multiple reports of this issue."

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  1. Ctrl-alt-del by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that was a mistake, how many times have I accidentally rebooted Linux because I was trying to login to my windows vm.

    1. Re:Ctrl-alt-del by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      /slowclap Bravo

    2. Re:Ctrl-alt-del by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Can't tell if this is an actual mistake or the best post ever.

    3. Re:Ctrl-alt-del by SonicBurst · · Score: 4, Informative

      Whomever modded this offtopic needs to read the front page. And then mod it funny.

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    4. Re:Ctrl-alt-del by geek · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yeah, that was a mistake, how many times have I accidentally rebooted Linux because I was trying to login to my windows vm.

      Comedy fucking gold. Bravo to you sir

    5. Re:Ctrl-alt-del by Nerdfest · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm a regular poster and haven't had mod points in over two years. I'm getting a little annoyed.

    6. Re:Ctrl-alt-del by Yetihehe · · Score: 4, Funny

      On the other hand I post very rarely and sometimes I have mod points even when I don't post. Maybe somehow slashdot also sends mod points to wrong users?

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    7. Re:Ctrl-alt-del by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

      There's no reason it can't be both.

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  2. Bigbama watching yall chats yo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients

    You mean besides the NSA?

  3. Seems to be fixed? by mwn3d · · Score: 2

    According to http://www.google.com/appsstatus it seems to have been fixed

  4. Google = buggy by scottbomb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm often amazed by how buggy Google software is. They have more money than they know what to do with and yet they put out some of the buggiest software. Google Drive is a disaster. I love Google Earth and use it daily but it crashed about 3 times yesterday. Maybe they should invest some of that money in quality control.

    1. Re:Google = buggy by geek · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm often amazed by how buggy Google software is. They have more money than they know what to do with and yet they put out some of the buggiest software. Google Drive is a disaster. I love Google Earth and use it daily but it crashed about 3 times yesterday. Maybe they should invest some of that money in quality control.

      I was saying this same thing a couple weeks ago to a friend. Google software is notoriously bad in quality. They have what seems to be zero QA and just release everything as beta. That was great when they were solely a tech company targeting the tech savy but they are mainstream now and targeting everyone.

      I honestly can't think of anything of theirs that isn't buggy as hell. Nice tech but the user experience is very low for a company that prides itself on the quality of its engineers.

    2. Re:Google = buggy by Urza9814 · · Score: 2

      Interesting. I can't recall ever encountering a single bug in any Google app. Hell I've noticed more bugs from my freakin Nintendo than from Google software...

      Of course, I don't use Google Drive, or Earth or anything like that...just search, gmail, youtube, voice, android, plus....

    3. Re:Google = buggy by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Informative

      You shouldn't be surprised when they have engineers who publicly say things like "bugs are no big deal. They happen anyway, no matter how hard you try to prevent them, and somehow life goes on." (if you read the article you'll see he said "bugs are no big deal" in bold).

      So stop worrying. When Google Earth crashes, it's no big deal. The fact that a message intended for my girl friend got sent to my sister-in-law, no big deal.

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    4. Re:Google = buggy by phantomfive · · Score: 2

      Just out of curiosity, exactly how much money have you paid Google for their software?

      Enough to complain when it breaks. Service is free, complaints are free.

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    5. Re:Google = buggy by phantomfive · · Score: 2

      The one problem I have is the constant pauses and disconnects. I'm sick of the "working" and "ooooops we lost all your shit" messages

      Those sound like serious bugs.

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    6. Re:Google = buggy by jittles · · Score: 2

      And to add insult to injury, the latest version of gmail will not let you attach a document to an email without first uploading it to drive. I am sure it works fine if you use an imap mail client, but the web-client is no good.

      Sure you can.

      Attachments that are too large (either exceeding the Gmail size limit or that of well-known recipient domains that Gmail knows about) will prompt you to upload the attachment to drive rather than trying to attach it directly.

      That's actually a pretty handy, user-friendly thing to do.

      I was trying to attach a 25kb word document. I could do so from my business account but not from my personal account. It kept taking me to Drive. Maybe something buggy was going on, but it would not let me. You're not the first person to tell me this. Now I know they just recently updated my inbox - it appears differently on gmail for iOS and gmail for Android than my business account. Perhaps this has something to do with it?

  5. Beta by Frankie70 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Such bugs are usually there in Beta releases. This will be fixed in the Production Release.

    1. Re:Beta by Sez+Zero · · Score: 2

      Such bugs are usually there in Beta releases. This will be fixed in the Production Release.

      No, these bugs are in beta. In the production release, they'll be full-blown vulnerabilities or exploits.

  6. Re:Breaking news by peon_a-z,A-Z,0-9$_+! · · Score: 2

    I can't speak for all demographics, but as a 25-year-old, a large amount of people in my age group across different professional disciplines use GTalk throughout the workday. So from my perspective, who isn't using GTalk?