ALERT ALERT

[Dellard]

So I was on SL yesterday and my alt was logged in both on the same rig.  Posted a message [now deleted] on my feed and my alts profile pic appeared instead of mine [which is blank]. Tried the same thing with alt logged out this time my own [correct] blank profile pic appeared. Looks like a security loophole. 

[AdminGirl]

1 hour ago, Dellard said:

So I was on SL yesterday and my alt was logged in both on the same rig.  Posted a message [now deleted] on my feed and my alts profile pic appeared instead of mine [which is blank]. Tried the same thing with alt logged out this time my own [correct] blank profile pic appeared. Looks like a security loophole. 

Not sure what you mean Dellard.

Do you mean that your main posted a message on your alt's profile feed, but it shows your alt's profile pic as the one making the post?

[Dellard]

I posted on my own feed but it showed my alt's profile picture, my alt was logged in on same computer. I don't have a profile pic myself. It's not a problem for me but it might cause problems for other people if it happens to them. 

[Alwin Alcott]

20 minutes ago, Dellard said:

I posted on my own feed but it showed my alt's profile picture, my alt was logged in on same computer. I don't have a profile pic myself. It's not a problem for me but it might cause problems for other people if it happens to them. 

 sharing viewer cache?

[Lewis Luminos]

I just tried this (as I happened to have both myself and my alt logged in together) and was not able to reproduce it. Two pics, one each, and both posted with the correct profile pic.

[Drakonadrgora Darkfold]

6 minutes ago, Lewis Luminos said:

I just tried this (as I happened to have both myself and my alt logged in together) and was not able to reproduce it. Two pics, one each, and both posted with the correct profile pic.

but did you start up two separate installations of sl or just two copies of the same installation?

[Lewis Luminos]

11 minutes ago, Drakonadrgora Darkfold said:

but did you start up two separate installations of sl or just two copies of the same installation?

Two copies of the same installation, on the same device.

[Lancewae Barrowstone]

I suspect Dellard logged in his alt second, while is main was already on.  Thus, for whatever reason, when posting to the feed his alt's picture was grabbed, being most recent.  *shrugs*

[Qie Niangao]

11 hours ago, Dellard said:

Looks like a security loophole. 

Oh at the very least. At least Catznip provides a suitably scary confirmation dialog whenever you enable multiple viewers:

[MoiraKathleen]

I was confused.  There are a lot of different viewers and not everyone uses the same one or does things the same way.  My first thought was wondering what posting on the profile feed had to do with viewers and which accounts were logged in, because I associate profile feeds with my.secondlife.com and that being accessed through an external web browser.  Then I remembered that the LL viewer still used web profiles (and perhaps some of the other 3rd party viewers might have that as an option) as well as some people use the viewer's built in web browser.  

So, sometimes it's helpful to state which viewer you are using, and how you are accessing a feature when there might be multiple ways to do something. 

[Colt Leeder]

Do people actually read the profile feeds anyway?

A left over relic from when they tried to make SL more like Facebook.

[Silent Mistwalker]

32 minutes ago, Kade Huntsman said:

Do people actually read the profile feeds anyway?

A left over relic from when they tried to make SL more like Facebook.

I don't. I've never even used that "feature". I don't use Facebook either. lol