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New Nokia Smartphones Leak E-mail Passwords

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Solution: by forkazoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't use 'GET /', 'HTTP/1.0', or 'user-agent' as your password, and you will be much less likely to have your password submitted automatically by an HTTP client program.

  2. sneaky.. by Keruo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good thing my email password is ";drop database;"

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    1. Re:sneaky.. by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bobby Tables, is that you?

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  3. sounds like by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 5, Funny

    they're not very smart phones.

    1. Re:sounds like by Sockatume · · Score: 3, Funny

      I mentally inserted a Horatio sunglasses moment between your post title and the content.

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