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Teenage Blogger Finds Gmail Hole

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-what-i-was-doing-at-14 dept.

cpm80 wrote to mention the news that a 14 year old blogger has identified a security hole in the Gmail webmail service. From the Network World article: "He wrote that he was trying to e-mail JavaScript code from a Yahoo account to a G-mail account. The code will run in a preview pane, he wrote. But if the code is mailed from one Gmail account to another, it is filtered out, he said. Some visitors to the blog reported being able to replicate the findings, but others said later that they were not able to and that the supposed flaw had been fixed."

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  1. So the story is? by Osrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something happened, he is not sure what, and now nobody can replicate it.

    Stuff that matters huh?

  2. Fixed by hetairoi · · Score: 4, Informative

    SANS Internet Storm Center says it's fixed. Seems pretty silly.

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  3. I thought teenagers. . . by smooth+wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    were good at finding holes to exploit. Any hole.

    Er, wait. Scratch that. I'm thinking of something else.

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  4. So the attention grabber headline is... by geobeck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Teenage Computer Geek Finds Hole

    Girlfriend says "Finally!"

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