A while back, my buddy Kris gchatted me:

Kris: i think am in love
Kris: will you marry me?
Greg: no way dude
Greg: your face
Kris: it’s true
Greg: areyou proposing?
Greg: if so
Greg: ok fine
Kris: go to churches
Kris: i’ll mary you
Kris: kiss you
Kris: and fuck you
Kris:

This seemed peculiar as 1) Kris is actually a dude, 2) He’s never gchatted me…ever and 3) He’s already married so I don’t see how he could marry me and fuck me with out getting into big trouble with his wife. At one point I thought he might be really drunk and making a lot of mistakes with a lot of friends:

Kris: I’m very sorry
Kris: i think..
Kris: i am intoxicat
Kris: intoxicated
Kris: beer
Greg: proove it
Kris: noooooooooooooo

But, it turned out that someone had hacked into his gmail account and was using it for probably the most inane thing you could use a hacked gmail account for–chatting with the person’s friends. This hacker must have been pretty dumb. He ended up giving me Kris’s email and password:

Kris: I’m hacker
Greg: nah
Greg: kris is a hacker
Greg: so you’re a hacker
Greg: so you are kris
Kris: no
Kris: kris.*****@gmail.com/[password redacted]
Greg: oh rad!
Greg: now i can be kris too.
Greg: lemme try

Click "details" to see session information and to log out all sessions.

I remembered reading on the Gmail blog (yep, I’m a nerd) that you can see all locations from which your gmail account has been accessed as well as signed all sessions out. So, I put this feature to the test, logged into Kris’s account and signed out all the sessions, then logged back in and changed his password before the guy had a chance to log back in. I was eventually able to get a hold of his then fiancée, and the day was saved!
Here are instructions on the Gmail blog about how to log out all active sessions. »