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AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts

Posted by Soulskill on from the reach-out-and-touch-some-one-at-random dept.

CAE guy writes "The Boston Globe is carrying an AP report which begins: 'A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.' Who needs to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks when your service provider will hijack your session for you?"

6 of 138 comments (clear)

  1. It's not a GLITCH! It's AUTOMATIC HACKING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a feature, NOT a flaw.

  2. How half of all customer support calls begin by jarocho · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quote from the article:

    "I thought it was the phone -- 'Maybe this phone is just weird and does magical, horrible things and I have to get rid of it...'"

    1. Re:How half of all customer support calls begin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well, do you have any proof that it's not a magical phone???

  3. the american response by anonieuweling · · Score: 2, Funny

    should be:

    SUE the hell out of them.

  4. The feeling is mutual by lildogie · · Score: 3, Funny

    She ought to consider how the phone is probably feeling the same way about its user.

  5. Re:But... what? by coolgeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently not.

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