AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts

CAE guy writes "The Boston Globe is carrying an AP report which begins: 'A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.' Who needs to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks when your service provider will hijack your session for you?"

It's not a GLITCH! It's AUTOMATIC HACKING!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a feature, NOT a flaw.

How half of all customer support calls begin

[jarocho]

Quote from the article:

"I thought it was the phone -- 'Maybe this phone is just weird and does magical, horrible things and I have to get rid of it...'"

the american response

[anonieuweling]

should be:

SUE the hell out of them.

The feeling is mutual

[lildogie]

She ought to consider how the phone is probably feeling the same way about its user.

Re:How half of all customer support calls begin

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, do you have any proof that it's not a magical phone???

Re:But... what?

[coolgeek]

Apparently not.