iBt4iM reader John Fuller: It seems that some people are leaving their Gmail accounts wide open for anyone to browse. If you want to check this out for yourself do the following. Go to Bloglines.com, add a subscription, type in "http://gmail.google.com/gmail", then click subscribe. At the time of this writing you will be returned a list of feeds that include a working user name and password for certain accounts. It appears all of the accounts in question have "google.dirson.com" in the URL's that are listed. I visited the site but I am not able to understand the language (appears to be Portuguese). I am not sure what is going on here and don't have the time to investigate. I stumbled across this accidentally and I am sure these people do not want their Gmail accounts open to the world. Is anyone out there able to explain what is going on and who should be alerted to this problem (aside from the obvious people which would be the users listed).
Randy: Just click here for a preview of the Gmail passwords available via Bloglines.
Randy,
http://google.dirson.com/ is not written in portuguese, but in spanish.
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Wow..Randy this is dynamite ..in any language !! For kicks sake I took the feeds from whomever.. But for whatever reasons this is feed of 256 chars only.. but then agains its so wacky !!
I see reads in english too..thats not a good thing too !!
Randy, I linked you in here...With snaphoot too !!!
http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2004/11/gmail_security_.html
its like a WTF moment !!! :)-
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