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Re: Software glitch deletes news of software glitch


From: "Ahmad Elkhatib" <khatib () umich edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:22:13 +0400

its seems that arabianbusiness.com and itp.net (both owned by the same media
group) have pulled the news story off there site. this might have been
because of pressure from Kuwait. Other sites have the story:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9875714-7.html

-Ahmad

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:15 PM, The Security Community <
thesecuritycommunity () gmail com> wrote:

The Security Community keeps its eyes open for news of the "software
glitch" because this is often spin-speak for other, more serious
problems.

It is odd that the news item here, although tagged by Google, doesn't
exist anymore.  Searching the site for "software glitch" does not
result in any hits after December 16 2007.  Does anyone have any more
information?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply () google com>

Gmail accounts exposed by Kuwait ISP software glitch
 ArabianBusiness.com - Dubai,Umm al Qaiwain,United Arab Emirates
 by Quintin Smith on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 Due to a caching problem
 on a
 Kuwaiti ISP's servers, Gmail users in the nation have had trouble
 accessing ...
 <
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/512187-gmail-accounts-exposed-by-kuwait-isp-software-glitch

 See all stories on this topic:
 <
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.arabianbusiness.com/512187-gmail-accounts-exposed-by-kuwait-isp-software-glitch

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