14-Year-Old Blogger Discovered Gmail Security Flaw
Filed in: Google, Security, Technology, Web, Weblog — March 3rd, 2006
An 14-year-old blogger, Anthony found a Gmail security flaw when he sent a code from his Yahoo! mail account to his Gmail account. The code he used was:
Subject: a Body: asdfasdf<script>alert("asdF");</script>
“This vulnerability could be used to gather email addresses. Or even possibly to compromise the account.”, he said in the entry.
Google fixed the flaw shortly after the post went up, but Google claimed that it was a minor security flaw.
My two cents
No doubt, Google is fast. But I disagree that it was a minor problem.
