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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Gmail glitch yields access to messages, Cnet News.com, 12 Jan 2005

“A problem with Google's e-mail service, Gmail, let any user query the company's servers for information on the last message sent, two hackers announced on Wednesday. The programmers, part of a community site dedicated to the Unix-like FreeBSD operating system, found that an improperly formatted address allowed Gmail users to retrieve the message body of the last HTML-formatted e-mail processed by the server.�

Full story at http://news.com.com/Gmail+glitch+yields+access+to+messages/2100-1029_3-5534210.html?tag=st_lh

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