New Nokia Smartphones Leak E-mail Passwords

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday April 17, 2009 @06:34AM from the lazy-engineers dept.

Noksu writes "Despite of the recent plunge in Nokia's profits, the company is doing well in the surveillance business. The infamous 'Lex Nokia' got ratified in Finland and the company has launched a massive Nokoscope research project for data gathering. In the meantime Nokia's new smartphones forward e-mail account credentials to a remote server. Surprisingly enough, this is done in HTTP request headers. The company has been informed, but there has not been an official statement yet. Time for class action suit in the US?"

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inexcusable by speedtux · 2009-04-17 10:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Even Microsoft hasn't sunk to that level of incompetence and blatant violation of user privacy. Transmitting the user's password to a third party server in plain text over an unencrypted link is inexcusable.
I have several Nokia phones; obviously, I need to get rid of them. If they make such a fundamental mistake, Nokia obviously cannot be trusted with anything.
Fortunately, with Android, we now have a reasonable alternative.