[#VWR-877] Receiving private IMs that appear to be group IMs from groups I am not a member of

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Receiving private IMs that appear to be group IMs from groups I am not a member of

Created: 27/May/07 08:56 PM Updated: 10/Dec/08 10:38 AM

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Component/s:

Chat/IM, Groups

Affects Version/s:

1.16.0.x

Fix Version/s:

None

Environment:

Win XP, AMD64, Dual SLI

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Relates

This issue Relates to:

~~VWR-1043~~ Private IM is being distributed to main chat AND other IM channels

This issue is related to by:

VWR-4051 Double instant message from same avatar

~~VWR-4743~~ Otheres received my private Conversation (IM)

MISC-389 Meta-Issue: Group Chat/IM

Last Triaged:

09/Dec/08 01:42 PM

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Receiving private IMs that appear to be group IMs from groups I am not a member of.
I should not be receiving IMs from groups I am not a member of but this chatter looks to be rather... private... so IMs appear to be compromised.

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Gigs Taggart added a comment - 28/May/07 08:48 PM

Please report this through the security issue reporting process if you can reproduce it.

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Celierra Darling added a comment - 19/Jun/07 10:15 PM

Removed link with ~~VWR-1043~~ - this seems to be about group chats being sent to the wrong people, only, as opposed to IMs in general.

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Fledhyris Proudhon added a comment - 10/Jul/07 01:08 PM

I have also had this experience. I recently received a group IM, from a person in a different sim from me, who is not on my friendslist, and does not belong to ANY groups I am, or have ever been, a member of - including the group from which I received an IM.

It is hard to see how this is NOT related to other issues of IMs going astray. Either IMs are secure to the people/groups you send them to, or they are not - it is not for us, the users, to determine how technical bugs relate to one another. The ENTIRE ISSUE of IMs being sent astray is very serious, but one which nobody appears to be taking very seriously at all.

I would also like to add, to Gigs above - WHAT security issue reporting process, please? And since it is impossible to reproduce this bug, does that mean it is just going to be ignored and there is nothing anyone can do about it?

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Harleen Gretzky added a comment - 11/Jul/07 07:19 PM

I had this happen also, but like ~~VWR-1043~~, one of the avatars present was a member of the group and the others were not. And we only received certain IMs not all, they were all from the owner of the group, but not all owner IMs were received.

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Daedalus Young added a comment - 15/Jul/07 05:10 PM

I have a few times received Group IMs from Groups I'm no member of, and all times it was a ridiculously ~~long~~ message.

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Sylver Vuckovic added a comment - 12/Nov/07 02:34 PM

I also received this today, again from a person I've never had any contact with and a group I've never joined, let alone heard of.

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Crystal Cazalet added a comment - 14/Jan/08 04:03 PM

I had a problem where I was in a private IM with someone and i twas shared with people one of whom was on neithter friend list and confidential information was shared ... I reported the bug but again had no way of repeating the bug

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Mego Ryba added a comment - 16/Feb/08 12:42 AM

while we r on this subject--- a NEW feature would allow me to MUTE group ims about ridiculous things i m not interested in!!!

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Alexa Linden added a comment - 09/Dec/08 01:40 PM

Hi Ann, are you still experiencing this using the latest Release Candidate?

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Ann Otoole added a comment - 10/Dec/08 10:38 AM

I haven't observed this in a while. I do hope it is fixed because it basically caused me to lose all trust in Secondlife's IM system and I have to discuss business outside of Secondlife. A habit I doubt I will break now that I have developed it. It is not a good thing when you lose trust in IM privacy.