This just happened to me. I recieved messages (in gmail) from a contact that ware meant for his wife.
Be careful! I guess the best course of action is not to use gmail chat until google announces they have fixed the issue.
Be careful! I guess the best course of action is not to use gmail chat until google announces they have fixed the issue.
You can't tell me you have confidence that this randomly won't happen again in the future? It's shattered mine.
Already you've cut yourself off from flying, riding on trains and driving. Nobody can guarantee that deadly accidents will never happen, and indeed they do happen.
Presumably you only eat food your grow yourself. There are regular instances of contamination in the industrial food sector. Not that any guarantees can really be made, but at least contamination will be mostly your own fault.
See where I'm going with this?
There are alternatives and one could choose a statistically safer one. There is obviously no guarantee. However, gtalk now has the highest likelihood of sending your messages to random people. That's a reason to avoid it.
1: Except, of course, IRC which is a protocol, not a service, and it was never designed to be private, but that's pedantry.
What I meant though is that the fact that whatever kind of shenanigans they're doing internally has a failure condition that can misroute messages is a bit scary.