Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients

Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by Karunamon on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:36PM (#6452299)

I think the overall point here is that the ability for a message addressed to one person to end up on someone else's screen carries some rather unfortunate implications for the internals of the service. Compare with IRC private messages, email, heck even XMPP.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by mseebach on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:50PM (#6452390)

Both IRC and XMPP cheerfully supports group messages?

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by Karunamon on Thursday September 26, 2013 @02:08PM (#6452527)

I know XMPP does because I use that particular function at work daily, and IRC supports person to person PMs.

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.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by simoncion on Thursday September 26, 2013 @06:27PM (#6454029)

XMPP does via MUC: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html

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