My prediction was good...

Yesterday I wrote a post about Google Web Accelerator and I've launched a prediction: "we'll see some privacy problems during the next days"... I was terrible right!!

Guys on the SomethingAwful.com Forum has discovered a big security and privacy hole:   when they refresh the forum page, lots of time they were logged in as a different user (another UserID) and they was able to view the control panel of the wrong user, with all the settings.

You can see screenshots here:

The problem is surely a caching problem... Google, why a big company like you release tools with this terrible holes? Web Accelerator is a disaster...

Print | posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 9:10 AM

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# re: Google Web Accelerator

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Left by Note tecniche e di programmazion on May 07, 2005 10:15 AM

# Google Web Accelerator Hole!

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Left by Tech Guru on May 07, 2005 8:07 PM

# Google Accelerator decelerating user interest

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I've been using the Google Accelerator since the day it came out. According to their timer as of this writing I've saved 2.5 hours. When the Accelerator is firing and the issues aren't there, it does seem to speed things up a bit. My original comments ...
Left by Things That ... Make You Go Hmm on May 10, 2005 7:02 AM

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