Third party sites where the Google account was used for authorization, could have transmittted data through Cloudflare. (Think "Log in with Google" button on millions of sites.)
Not quite. CloudFlare is available to users of Google Cloud, but Google services don't use CloudFlare.
The only exception I could imagine would be some service that was brought in as part of an acquisition but has not yet been migrated to Google's internal platform. Obviously not applicable to products like Gmail or other core G Suite apps.
I would imagine that was because the comments are intended for discussion about that particular issue, not for random users to jump in with wild conjecture on its impacts. Honestly not that strange.
That would have been the best outcome. As it is, I'm left with concerns. Maybe it is related, but he's been instructed to not comment. Maybe it's a National Security Letter. Or whatever.
And yes, maybe he was just stressed out, and didn't want to be pestered with conspiracy theory ;)
Imagine you walked into a group of people, talking about one thing.
You started talking about something completely random and different.
They want to continue their conversation, you keep interjecting with questions about your random thing.
If they could, they'd probably turn you off so you couldn't talk, or go to another place to talk about it.
he was nice enough to answer the off-topic question, and the person who asked decided not to believe him and continued to take the discussion further off topic. The only good way to handle that sort of thing is to lock the thread.
Yeah, same here. I was trying to figure out if I had done something to trigger it or, worse yet, if I'd been "hacked" (or someone got close and Google noticed and killed all my sessions).
This happened to me too. And having 2FA enabled makes it a pain when you are logged out of _all_ your devices.
I checked my usage history but could not find anything.
And this article really does not explain why.
On Mac it is so easy to steal a password. In Javascript: var gmailPw=prompt("Facetime requires your password to login"); Macos asks it every week/month for one reason or another, people are conditioned.
On some versions of android if you long press on the popup it will show you which app it's from. This obviously doesn't work for not-android and older versions, though.
Happened to me too, pain to log back in on google play (not allowed to paste password in)
It initially gave me a message that something had changed and I needed to log in again, I can't remember if that was on outlook (yes, I use outlook to get my gmail) or on google play.
Actually ended up wiping my phone because this coincided with a weird set of text attachments I got from someone who didn't knowingly send them. At that point I wasn't sure that my phone wasn't being keylogged, so I wiped to be on the safe side.
Happened to my work account and my personal. Got a scary notification on my phone telling that "Something changed on my phone and I need to login again"
Glad my Gmail account is no longer my primary email. Haven't seen issues with it on desktop, but my Windows phone is repeatedly spamming a "your Google account information is out-of-date" message.
Nothing in the Google Account panel for recently security changes though.
Happened on mine too. In Chrome I had to re-auth with 2FA, in iOS I just had to pick my gmail account from the account list without even reentering the password. Very strange.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 243 ms ] thread(... that said, it's not like revoking sessions would impede a password-holding adversary...)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-is-now-a-google-cloud...
The only exception I could imagine would be some service that was brought in as part of an acquisition but has not yet been migrated to Google's internal platform. Obviously not applicable to products like Gmail or other core G Suite apps.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=11...
Strange.
What more is there to say?
I think there's nothing special about refusing to discuss stuff there and disabling comments.
I suspect that there will be many such reports in coming weeks. And lots of denial, and refusal to comment.
And yes, maybe he was just stressed out, and didn't want to be pestered with conspiracy theory ;)
Imagine you walked into a group of people, talking about one thing. You started talking about something completely random and different. They want to continue their conversation, you keep interjecting with questions about your random thing.
If they could, they'd probably turn you off so you couldn't talk, or go to another place to talk about it.
That's precisely what happened here.
I thought I was in sleep and had signed out of my mobile. But then same in mac. Then I thought some issue for sure.. And reports are here...!
Like most here I assumed it was just a random, regular occurrence, and didn't pay much attention.
ps: why the german text ?
No, geolocation is probably a great idea. /s
It initially gave me a message that something had changed and I needed to log in again, I can't remember if that was on outlook (yes, I use outlook to get my gmail) or on google play.
This kills me oh so very much.
Would prefer if keepass2android had some autotype feature built in for android :D
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=11...
Gmail doesn't use cloudflare.
Nothing in the Google Account panel for recently security changes though.