Re: Facebook glitch let some users see messages meant for other people

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

"This obviously won't be acceptable if Facebook actually has hopes to become
an email provider."

Uh, entire generations use Facebook as their email provider :)


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio <
juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:

> http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-has-securityprivacy-glitch-as-users-report-receiving-random-messages-meant-for-other-people-2010-2
>
> "A Facebook rep tells us, "During our regular code push earlier this
> evening,
> a bug caused some misrouting to a small number of users for a short period
> of time.
> Our engineers diagnosed the problem moments after it began and are working
> to get everything back in its rightful place.
> While they fix the issue, affected users will not be able to access the
> site."
>
> Good to know that only a small number of users were affected, but still
> embarrassing.
> This obviously won't be acceptable if Facebook actually has hopes to become
> an email provider."
> --clip--
>
> Last week Hotmail had similar issues:
> ""Microsoft is investigating reports of a limited number of instances in
> which Windows Live customers
> may have access to other customers' accounts when accessing their account
> through mobile Web browser,"
> the company said in a statement Tuesday."
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10454741-56.html
>
> Juha-Matti
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