Board update caused my session to be flagged as suspicious
Apr 16, 2021 9:17:59 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 9:17:59 GMT -5
I was logged in for some time, then, upon refreshing - after some period of inactivity - with F5, I got the red message that my activity is fucking suspicious, that I should enable javascript and fill in the challenge. Subsequent refresh attempts on the main page didn't cause the message to go away, so I closed the browser, and started it anew. I have my browser configured to always start in private browsing mode, so this cleared any cookies that were set - and voila! Board alive again, and it seems every subforum now has "Board Information & Statistics". I don't know whether it was there or whether there were changes, but it seems new to me.
So I figure it is that board has been updated, and since I was using a session from old software, it thought I was operating a robot written before its update... how fucking weird, when it was a genuine login. They need to fix their heuristics. Of course, since they don't care if I start a new session which will automatically use whatever it's new, it's likely their challenge was to milk more information in case login was indeed doing something suspicious. But fuck, what a triggering warning, indeed.
Has anyone had this happen to them?
So I figure it is that board has been updated, and since I was using a session from old software, it thought I was operating a robot written before its update... how fucking weird, when it was a genuine login. They need to fix their heuristics. Of course, since they don't care if I start a new session which will automatically use whatever it's new, it's likely their challenge was to milk more information in case login was indeed doing something suspicious. But fuck, what a triggering warning, indeed.
Has anyone had this happen to them?
