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jap
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038xx | Beta. It's still in Beta, no?? Not newsworthy if Gmail is still in beta. Finding things like this is what beta is for. | |
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stateq2
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| Re: Beta. It's still in Beta, no?? said by jap  :
Not newsworthy if Gmail is still in beta. Finding things like this is what beta is for.
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sadowski
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| Re: Beta. It's still in Beta, no?? said by stateq2 :
yeah...it's great, but I love going against the grain...considering the so many people have been blabbing about gmail (yes, I have an account)
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Cool.
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1 edit | Right on jap, besides its not their job to give us free e-mail accounts.
"You can't truly taste an uncooked meal." Just a thought.
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koitsu
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| Try explaining that to the 2149847494372023498 people who are already using and relying on Gmail, treating it like a non-beta commercial service.
Now, onto the issue of security.
It doesn't matter if technologies/solutions (buzzword overload!) are in alpha, beta, or production release: security holes are security holes.
I think it's safe to say that most of the people who're using Gmail at this point have already inserted legitimate information into their accounts, which makes this a nice big fat haven for privacy violation. It doesn't matter if it's beta.
Strike #2 for Google (for #1, look into the Orkut lawsuit). This is what they get for only hiring "geek jocks".
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deblin
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| said by koitsu :
I think it's safe to say that most of the people who're using Gmail at this point have already inserted legitimate information into their accounts, which makes this a nice big fat haven for privacy violation. It doesn't matter if it's beta.
If I'm understanding it correctly, existing users are not affected now. Unless of course someone was using the exploit at the time you signed up to get this info. But if they haven't already done so, and you're using your gmail account, they cannot get the info. It's only for new users.
I agree it should definitely be addressed, though, regardless of what level of release they are in.
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jap
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| Re: Beta. It's still in Beta, no?? said by C_ :
the population of the world is less then 7,000,000,000...
You cite merely the human population. Koitsu lives in Mountain View & is no doubt privy to the little known fact that for every 1 human Gmail account holder there are 166,943 insects that have been invited into the pre-release testing phase - So let's be Fair & Balanced for koitsu. | |
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Tiver
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| Idiot, RTFA
"A remote user with a valid GMail invitation can determine information about another user attempting to register an account with the service, including the target user's first and last name and the target user's desired GMail account username."
At most they can get the first and last name and desired username of someone attempting to register. And they need a valid invitation themselves. It's not that huge of a violation, and if they've "have already inserted legitimate information into their accounts" then they don't have to worry about this bug in beta gmail as it doesn't apply to already created accounts. | |
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