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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Re:Non-issue? by Nos. · 2009-04-17 06:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

I guess Nokia getting your email account credentials isn't an issue for you.
Re:Non-issue? by InsertWittyNameHere · 2009-04-17 06:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

If you setup an email on your Blackberry with BIS (not BES) then RIM has your credentials.
Why is it an issue now with only Nokia?