Insecurity of your Gmail contact list

Torrential Web Dev

Monday, January 1. 2007

Posted by Jonathan Street in Misc at 15:26

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Insecurity of your Gmail contact list

This is slightly shocking, if you are logged in to google then your contact list can be harvested by any site you visit.

This makes my tutorial on getting a visitors gmail contact list where you actually have to get permission from the visitor seem somewhat redundant.

Hopefully google will fix this fairly quickly.

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Security of your Gmail contact list
It looks like our contact lists are now being handled more securely by google. Apparently it was a problem on a few of their sites, video, groups and notebook are mentioned but solutions are now in place - though in some instances only temporary fixes
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