Talaria - Slashdot User

Submission + - Flixster Grabbing Users' AOL and Gmail Passwords

Submitted by Talaria on Thursday March 22, 2007 @04:53PM

Talaria writes: The social networking movie review site Flixster is grabbing their users' AOL, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail passwords, and using them to access their users' address books and send "invitations" to join Flixster to everyone in the address book, making it appear to be from the user. The password prompt screen looks very compelling, and even includes the ISP's logo right next to the password prompt. Rather than hiding this little "feature", Flixster brags about it in an interview following their receiving $2million in venture funding earlier this year.

Submission + - Huge Residential Wifi Mapping Database Revealed

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Talaria

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @02:34PM

Talaria writes: "An enormous database of home wifi routers and their locations has been revealed after the Internet Patrol did some digging following AOL's recent announcement of their new "Near Me" service which allows AIM users to see which of their instant messenger buddies are geographically near them. The database, containing the unique IDs of more than 16million wireless routers and their locations, has been compiled by AOL partner Skyhook Wireless which claims to have mapped the majority of residences in both the U.S. and Canada."

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