For christmas 2010, I've got a nice shiny Android phone (htc desire). 3 days later, as I check my email via the web GUI, the 'last accessed from' text that most don't even notice ever had a dark red background, with 'WARNING' word. Clicking on it, this is what I could see:
Coincidence? Could be, but too little chance to practically consider. More likely that some shady app from the market (yes, I've only installed from the market, and never ever gave my password to anybody).
What is even more surprising is the IP! 255/8 is reserved unallocated, so I wonder how google could be so stupid to even accept routing advertisments for any prefix below 255/8!
I'm almost certain this has something to do with registering my android phone with Google, using my good old reliable google account. I'm also considering that google uses 255/8 internally (maybe only for registering android phones?), and they screwed something up with the access alerts. I don't know and I can't know as google doesn't support non-premium users.
So here it goes. I can't draw any conclusions, neither can anyone else, but maybe it will help someone.
1 comments:
this was an error that apparently a lot of gmail users saw around that date. i have no android phone and saw it as well. so it seems to be a more general gmail failure. no need to spread conspiracy theories. ;)
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