'Misdirected Cookie' Lands Family on Strangers' Facebook Accounts

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via MSNBC.com (AP).

[snip]

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.

In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women
into the wrong accounts. It doesn't appear the users could have done
anything to stop it. The problem adds a dimension to researchers' warnings
that there are many ways online information — from mundane data to dark
secrets — can go awry.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34885006/ns/technology_and_science-security/

- - ferg

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