Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users
All, especially Vint, Well Vint, seems yet again Google has proven their disregard for your users privacy and security. Bad show, IMO! Thanks allot for propagating even more UCE/Spam there Vint! >:( < sarcasm intended > Oh yes, and BTW Vint, now that this errant mistake has surfaced, how long to you think it is going to be before technical terrorist or organized Internet crime groups are going to exploit it? My guess is, it's already too late... Second question Vint: Why in the HELL don't you folks at Google test out your code vigorously BEFORE you release it to the public? You of all people should know better. See: Have you ever wanted to know the name of admin@gmail.com? Now you can. Through a bug in Google calendars http://blog.holdenkarau.com/2008/07/gaping-whole-in-gmail-privacy.html the names of all registered Gmail accounts are now readily available. All you need to find out the names of any gmail address is a Google calendar account yourself. Depending on your view this ranges from a harmless "feature" to a rather serious privacy violation. According to some reports, spammers are already exploiting this "feature"/bug to send personalized spam messages. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827
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Jeffrey A. Williams