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New Gmail bug allows sending messages anonymously

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Bleeping Computer[^]:

    A new bug discovered in Gmail affects the web app's user experience by hiding the source address of an email, a situation that comes with an obvious potential for abuse.

    I'm sure no one will use this for nefarious purposes

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      Bleeping Computer[^]:

      A new bug discovered in Gmail affects the web app's user experience by hiding the source address of an email, a situation that comes with an obvious potential for abuse.

      I'm sure no one will use this for nefarious purposes

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      Nelek
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      Funnier will be, when people try to abuse it once google has fixed it :rolleyes:

      M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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        Bleeping Computer[^]:

        A new bug discovered in Gmail affects the web app's user experience by hiding the source address of an email, a situation that comes with an obvious potential for abuse.

        I'm sure no one will use this for nefarious purposes

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        Mark_Wallace
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        So what's happening is that they're stripping out the sender ID, so that they can re-add it after they've shown the "anonymised" data they're storing to inspectors, but one of the guys working on it accidentally made it a "move" operation, rather than "copy".

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        • K Kent Sharkey

          Bleeping Computer[^]:

          A new bug discovered in Gmail affects the web app's user experience by hiding the source address of an email, a situation that comes with an obvious potential for abuse.

          I'm sure no one will use this for nefarious purposes

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          Quirkafleeg
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          So 20 years after SQL injection was introduced to the world, Google never thought about simple HTML injection...

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