Friday Jul 30, 2010

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I don't know what is going on with the SG site, I was having issues with it this morning, and still haven't heard from headquarters. Tonight I'm still having problems. I tried one computer can access my account just fine even view photos, and then this computer won't show the photos, but I can access everything else. I thought my subcription ran out and I went to try to renew it and it won't let me. It just keeps going back to the renew screen and won't let me put in my credit card. I'm getting pissed!!!madmadmad


** Up date** it just happened again!!! I left my computer for about 15 minutes came back and it was logged into someone else's account.... is anyone else having problems?? I have no idea what is going on. I've notified headquarters twice but haven't heard back from them. I am running virus scans and changing all my passwords to see if that helps. It's just strange!!!
mellon:
It sounds like you are behind a broken web caching system. If there are other SG users behind the same system, and it always sends the most recent cookie (which is what indicates who's logged in) you'll see pages for other users. If this is what's going on, the only way to fix it is for your internet service provider to fix their web cache. The good news is that if this is the problem, it probably only happens on page refreshes, not on submits, so you probably don't have to worry about someone else posing as you. But they could see private content for you, if they can figure out the URL. It would be difficult to do this consistently, so the risk is pretty small. I'm guessing you haven't seen anything private that you shouldn't have.

BTW, you should not assume in the slightest that SG is secure, because it's not. Anyone who can see your packets--your ISP, and anybody who's on your wireless connection--can see what you are doing on SG, and can probably capture your password as well. So you're more secure if you use a wired connection at home, but SG doesn't encrypt your traffic (I'm guessing it would be prohibitively expensive), so no, you aren't secure.

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