Comments on Eamon Nerbonne: Leaking Information

Ahh... It's a feature ;-)

2007-04-20T14:52:00.000+02:00

Ahh... It's a feature ;-)

Maybe google uses the picasa web album users to up...

2007-04-20T10:59:00.000+02:00

Maybe google uses the picasa web album users to upgrade their spam filters for gmail.

Although the credential leak is pretty blatant, it...

2007-01-25T19:06:00.000+01:00

Although the credential leak is pretty blatant, it was restricted to a very small number of specific credentials; and it's an almost unavoidable symptom of a site being phished. Furthermore; these people were notified quickly thereafter, and it's an error you can try to avoid.

Frankly, if your data has reached an anti-phishing list, you already have a huge problem.

The picasaweb issue is nasty not because of its individual impact, but because it's widespread (most picasaweb users will be gmail users), and because it's a design flaw - it can no longer be fixed (easily)! So yeah, I think that this issue is more relevant than two or three (it really was a small number) credentials appearing on the list; not that the credential leak isn't ironic, it's just a ephemeral thing, that's all.

And you thought that was a bad case of leakage? Tr...

2007-01-25T17:59:00.000+01:00

And you thought that was a bad case of leakage? Try google leaking credentials with their antiphishing features...