GMAIL locked me out
What is up with GMAIL? I was locked out all day yesterday because...? I don't know. I usually have my e-mail program open on a couple of computers at the same time almost everyday and have been doing that ever since Gmail started, because I move around my house/office so much.
Why was I suddenly locked out? In their lockout notice, it says that might have caused it, even though they also listed a few other possible reasons that don't apply to me.
I'm working on a chapter for a book -- which is insane all by itself -- so I'm not posting as much this week, but not being able to at least scan my Inbox is a big problem and it feels like I'm partially blogospheric blind.
It's working now, but when you have no access to it I have to say it's very, very weird. And you can't get to GMAIL to find out why this stuff happens. It's like, well, it'll be back in the next 24 hours or so.
If I haven't responded to something I apologize. Now I'll be digging through a thousand emails to catch up. Has this happened to you?
Thanks, GMAIL guys.
Gmail and Hotmail have swiss cheese like security.
don't think it's whole site either because I'm logged into my Gmail account right now. Strange stuff. Hope you get it sorted.
I've never seen change without a fire
It's probably Obama's "thugs" spying on you.
magazine....oops I mean, blog:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclu...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
It's a glitch in the matrix!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
for ever. Too big brother.
I had a weird gmail hiccup this afternoon where it booted me, but I was able to get back in.
After seeing the lie that is the concept called "Cloud Computing".
is a mainframe. That is innovation!!
Isn't cloud computing doing your work online and storing it there? Like google docs?
Edit: you are already connected to a mainframe. Or do you connect to the internet by magic?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
but my data remains on my harddrive - not theirs.
say NOTHING when you know nothing.
clouds computing is a bunch of loosely connected computers pretending to act as one. it is supposed to be a way of pesenting a network of computers as a single image, only it's a freaking mess. the people proposing and selling 'clouds' want you to pay through the nose for their 'expertise' in cloud computing.
it's a joke. they haven't designed any security for 'clouds'. LOL
Some stuff you can't make up!
Ah right, thanks for the explanation. Don't know about the mess but i can imagine it tho :p
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
Microsoft, after leveraged buyouts, is in charge of ALL of your source files, and by golly will do their best to keep them safe.
I shudder.
But I will never partake.
That we won't control our info. Kinda like Youtube can yank videos. Thanks
Your description of cloud computing is both insufficient and incorrect.
It is insufficient because it could just as easily be describing my company's eight web servers, which are eight computers pretending to be one web server. If you think that's cloud computing, then that's your definition but certainly not the generally recognized one.
It is incorrect because you say 'it's a joke. they haven't designed any security for 'clouds'.' But, of course, there's no 'they'. There are dozens of companies trying to make cloud computing work, and their security models are just as diverse as their business models, and are bound to vary just as much in effectiveness.
Oh, and as for 'paying through the nose', it's really funny to hear that. If you look at Amazon's implementation of a rudimentary form of cloud computing (multi-machine virtualization and data storage, with customers completely oblivious to changes in machine) it is a solution that, for certain problems, is actually an order of magnitude cheaper than other alternatives. So are a couple of the cloud-computing backup solutions.
It's easy to be a cynic, and you don't actually need any information about your subject. As you so ably demonstrate.
-fred
all the data stored on huge ass mainframes. Your data will not be on your hard drive. SO if I have a technical word messed uo sorry. My point is the data will be in someone elses control.
And BTW, CoIntelPro.Pron., I can speak when ever the fuck I want to. Get that?
Good luck.
If you're serious about your email, its privacy and reliability, set up your own IMAP server, or use a trusted external host where you pay them and they have to be accountable.
I am forever amazed at the numbers of businesses and bloggers who throw it to the wind when it comes to email.
And it is neither difficult nor particularly costly (for a business) to have a Linux-based e-mail server setup behind a good router, using very cheap hardware. The only prerequisite is DSL or better broadband and a fixed IP address (preferably two).
WRT54gl loaded with dd-wrt, is teh shit.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It...
28 time customer choice award, wow, get 3 or 4, 1 for each pc, lol. I have 2, lol. I want 1 more. Before they are gone!!!!!
http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
Pure pro, you have to manually type in a firewall in this thing, good luck.
Or if you really like to make it yourself difficult you set up a 486 box as a hardware firewall :p
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
You know I realy should get back to work on my life, you all keep reminding me of things that need done. I am going balistic on these So and So's. Every last government official and thier unborn children will know what has been done to me. I want whats mine, I have a split back and very pissed about it. When I get some of my stuff online out of back up maybe I will post a pic of my MRI looks brutal to me, but I was told over and over it's just in your head and you are mentally disturbed, a criminal, doctor shopper. People need to burn, I am breaking out the oxy/acetaline on these bitches. Only way to melt metal, op a 9-11 pun even.
right after 1 more bong hit. and ten more comments.
I have a 2.4 p4 with 2 gig in it should do the trick. Just sittin in closet.
ok. are you alright? o.O
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
No. I need a disability lawyer and a Legal Malpractice lawyer in the wrost way, now. I am still working on trying to get some (edit) nice doctor to write me up as at least partially disabled. I have hardly eaten for 2 days, I couldn't hardly move for almost the last 24 hours minus 6 starting now. Downed a 6 pack and took a 10 mg valium just to sleep for 5 hours last night. The police just tried to get me to sell prescription drugs to a minor, just unbelievable. My taxes are messed up just got a 350 fine for not filing local taxes. I paid them in person and lost that paper work within the piles of hospital lawyer confusion papers, while I was 4 months from my injury date trying to move from lack of income.
All the crazy information I have, the pictures the documented day by day treatment, I am about to build a couple time lines of this stuff too, this should be worth 200k or more I think.
NO I am not OK.
where do you live ?
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
PA, will you go down to 30 percent? HAHA
some help , like running errands , shopping , cooking , sm stuff , but Im in WA state . I know how important the sm things are and how the sm things become big things . Having provided home care for my dad and my exs dad .
Best of luck to ya .
dn
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Oh wow, I love you, thank you. I am at my parents house, my DAD is over 60 and a work horse thank god, like I should've been till his age, tho even stronger just because of my career. Even a local Church has rented us a big house with a big 2 car garage, very cheap also. God is really helping out here, no shit, he exists.
Oh it will be, trust me. You know what I like, me. You know what I also like a lawyer that has email conversations with me, and forgets to put the privacy disclaimer on the bottoms of the emails, LOLOLOLOLOL.
So these were my orders......
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 5:25 PM
To: D*&^%e F^&%$%^r
Subject: To clarify
I called you this morning, I told you that I want to end this. I mean that I don't want to go to court any more till I feel better.
I was reading ....
Injured workers may receive a lump sum Workers’ Compensation settlement as a compromise and release for all wage loss, claims and future medical expenses related to the treatment of a work injury.
I don't want to sign off like this.
I want to not be bothered for a long while till I know I will be ok.
That is 300 weeks? I want to get another job and forget this stuff for a while, mentally I can't handle it.
I am praying to God that I can work still. I don't want to give up medical expences, I want to give up the courts and the "faker" tests, because they make me hurt.
You have to understand I keep thinking that I feel better, but then I do something. I am so confused, I just want this to end now.
**************************
That was an email, to my lawyer, next time i talked to her she was yelling at me for changing my mind after I read the law, schedualded another hearing, was every 2 weeks, I was so hurt so much pain, pure torture and deceptive liar tactics, She told me on the phone I could sue again. Now they say I can't. Would've recorded every last convosation but in PA it is illegal to do so.
If this is serious business why the hell did you responded to my post that have nothing to do with it at all? Couldn't you wait for the open thread to post this in, unlike a thread about gmail and other tech stuff?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
Well you asked if I was OK, then you said cool story, so I just made it even cooler.
Serious business belongs in an open thread?
I am going to be putting a pretty large package togther rent a server and send out inquirys very soon.
That was an email, this thread is email, I haven't eaten damn. I am going now UG.
No, i didn't say srs business belongs in the open thread.
I posted: "Or if you really like to make it yourself difficult you set up a 486 box as a hardware firewall :p"
You reacted with: "
You know I realy should get back to work on my life, you all keep reminding me of things that need done. I am going balistic on these So and So's. Every last government official and thier unborn children will know what has been done to me. I want whats mine, I have a split back and very pissed about it. When I get some of my stuff online out of back up maybe I will post a pic of my MRI looks brutal to me, but I was told over and over it's just in your head and you are mentally disturbed, a criminal, doctor shopper. People need to burn, I am breaking out the oxy/acetaline on these bitches. Only way to melt metal, op a 9-11 pun even.
right after 1 more bong hit. and ten more comments.
I have a 2.4 p4 with 2 gig in it should do the trick. Just sittin in closet."
So i was like WTF!
Oh well nvm, go on ;)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
Well the P4 I am talking about was to house this info, with a 2 meg upload it should be fast enough. Or rent a server.
Dude I need food thanks for chatting with me. Good Night.
Lol, sure thing. good night.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
Oh yes I agree in Linux, don't open email in windows, I do but security, like they are saying. Not this box (C&L's) a differnet one.
Tools, advanced, reset, works for some bugs but you loose allot save user names and passwords which you shouldn't type in your pc anyway.
John, you are becoming a very powerfull man, and sure to be hacked some day. Back ups everyday, go IT crazy on this shit.
If you're serious about your email, its privacy and reliability, set up your own IMAP server, or use a trusted external host where you pay them and they have to be accountable.
For the latter, sure. For the former, NO NO NO NO NO.
Do not encourage non-server-savvy people to set up their own mail servers. People who aren't server-savvy often do not do, know how to do, or even know that it is a good idea to do any or all of the following:
- choose appropriate passwords
- disable ssh password login and require certificates
- firewall appropriately
- keep server patches up to date
- deal with being blacklisted
- deal with setting up decent anti-spam software server-side
- appropriately back up their servers
- appropriately back up their servers; or,
- appropriately back up their servers
I am an IT professional, and if you had any idea how many people I have had to explain to that a RAID mirror is not a backup, despite their running even their own small business servers for years, you would never give this advice.
Pay someone to run your email for you. It's CHEAP! Don't do it yourself.
-fred
Comcast locked me out yesterday. I am on dsl and still have 3 comcast emails, lol. Yes it is very disturbing when you are searching for an old email, to file a malpractice suit.....jeez. :D
Got em, er uh HER! This will be in chapter 7-8 I suppose in my book. all jokes tonight , I can move my hands again, yes!
GMAIL is faulty.Period.
was completely down for 1 1/2 days. People we livid. No Internet banking, no ATM, no branch (6 of them) office could do anything.
I was checking my email on my phone (the Razr) and on the computer and I was locked out for 2 hours - due to unusual activity (or something like that).
Haven't been locked out since.
NPR did a story about cloud computing and one of the people they interviewed was locked out of his gmail account. It took a mention by NPR for this person to get access to his account. Google said it had to do with some sort of security issue. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?...
I will never use cloud computing ever.
it is fait accompli for the future
I ones was without an internets connection for more then a day. I was afraid that they where on to me!
/tinfoil
[/j/k]
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I don't give a toss.
I use Mail app on my computer and set up Gmail through that, and I have never had problems with it. The gmail web interface seems to always have problems though.
I only log on to their site to check the spam folder.
Some stuff you can't make up!
with Google Wave. They recently opened it to limited release and it might be interfering somehow.
Suddenly yesterday, it changed appearance and looks like crap - most of the stuff not loading right, until I click into a thread to post a comment and then it looks normal.
I suppose I ought to restart my poor little puter sometimes...
when you run MS Outlook, you can run the program offline. you don't *HAVE* to connect to the Exchange server to read old emails, sort through stored emails, etc. - you can't get new stuff, but, your old stuff is there. and, the program loads and runs.
this concept isn't lost on Google. even on this site people have found Google cached versions of pages that someone being reported on has removed or edited. Google caching .. Google understands making, storing and referencing backups and stored data.
***
yea, gmail occasionally fails on me too, Mr. Amato and its really frustrating when you just get some .. "sorry nothing works" fail page. c'mon Google, at least let us browse the stuff we already talked about. its gotta be saved somewhere, I mean, are messages already cached?
same with the calendar and the documents.
c'mon .. Microsoft can do that ..
I've had no problems with GMail recently. Sorry for your problems.
This usually works for me when I get locked out.
https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha
Most 24 hour lockouts for Gmail are due to overuse, either too many requests or too much bandwidth. This can be caused by broken software, spyware, or just extreme over-use. Imagine downloading your entire mailbox worth of data multiple times in a single day.
Yes, these aren't necessarily your fault... but gmail has to protect itself as well.
Usually, it should only lock you out of one mode, ie if its an IMAP lockout, you should still be able to use the web interface.
Latest problem is a bug in the new version of Mail.app in Snow Leopard, its listed in the Known Issues section:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?...
Mostly guess work, your comments aren't specific enough to know one way or the other.
This page says leaving your account open on many computers:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?...
eh
Freemail services are loss leaders, and are operated accordingly. It is well-known among all senior experts (anyone with at least 20 years' worth of professional experience) in this area that nearly all of them have massive security holes, chronic and systemic problems with spammers, prolonged outages, and seriously underqualified staff.
Google is not an exception to this. The junior people they have assigned to handling their email system are simply not able to manage it properly, and seem to be far more focused on adding useless trinkets and eye candy to the user interface than on building a service with a rock-solid core. Outages (limited and total) are frequent, anti-spam measures are amateurish at best, and interoperability limited because apparently Google's staff does not know how to read an RFC and follow it.
Oh, gmail's fine for casual use. But no professional should ever rely on it; it's simply not good enough. Not even close.
(But it is worth noting that it's preferable to Yahoo and MSN/Hotmail, both
of which were completely overrun by spammers, hackers, phishers, etc. years
ago and are completely dysfunctional. It's not at all clear that they ARE any staff still minding the store there, as responses to enquiries appear to be (a) automated and (b) illiterate.)
they don't know of what they speak.
because they think they are the experts.
You have to ask yourself, "How much did I pay for this service?". The saying, you get what you pay for seems to fit. These days, you are lucky to get what you pay for, let alone get something for nothing.
I don't know who is hosting this site for you, but you should have your own secure mail server included.
why are you keeping your data on the Google cloud?
Cloudlets, in my case. The home MythTV PVR doubles as the data server for the two of us. A central backup point as well.
First world problems, much?
I don't mean to be snide, and I appreciate that your career centres around your ability to check your email on a regular basis, but you've admitted yourself that GMail is a very reliable service. And it is.
But goes down once, and suddenly people are shocked and appalled. It reminds me of this internet-famous clip, featuring Louis CK chatting with Conan O'Brien:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtEQB-9tvk
...are you saying you may have missed my profanity laced electronic correspondence? :P
Phew, I've had time to reconsider and I'm not mad anymore. ;)
You really should prepare to share this chore with a trustworthy individual(s) if you are to grow this thing.
Amended: Let me know if this makes it to ya. :)
This Payment will appear XXXXXXXXXXX as "CROOKxxxxxx"
Study the symptoms not the virus...
i changed my password with google mail. two hours later i had forgotten my password.trying to remember it, i was locked out for 24 hours.my experience was a good one.the sense of security that gave me,knowing they have things in place to protect the account..and best of all ,having to look thru thousands of emails beats tens of thousands you would have to sort thru, for other web based email clients .thank you gmail
GMail is now controlled by Michael Steele. He locked you out.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
I just recently switched to Gmail from Yahoo, because the yahoo's at Yahoo were holding most of my emails for up to days at a time, even though they were in my address book. I haven't had any problems with Gmail yet, but I'm not thrilled to hear others have problems.
This may or may not help with your situation. I had read somewhere a few months back that if you have trouble accessing "regular" Gmail, try hitting the HTML and mobile interfaces in your browser. Sometimes these methods will work, even if Gmail appears to be "down."
HTML:
https://mail.google.com/mail/h/k2ga4ak0z8sx/?...
Mobile/iPhone:
https://mail.google.com/mail/x/gdlakb-/gp/?au...
The mobile option especially is an interesting way to hit Gmail. Best of luck.
Comments are closed on this entry