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From: nekramer at mindtheater.net (Nancy Kramer)
Subject: Slashdot: Gmail Accounts Vulnerable to
  XSS Exploit

Google is very secretive about everything.  Don't expect them to share 
information.

Regards,

Nancy Kramer
Webmaster http://www.americandreamcars.com
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At 11:22 PM 10/30/2004, n3td3v wrote:

>I feel sorry for all the security pros outside of gmail and google, so
>I say the below on behalf of them...
>
>Should the general public be expecting a disclosure of the
>vulnerability to security mailing lists once a solution has been
>implemented to patch the hole, so other web-based services are aware
>of the possibility of the same problem being an issue for them, or
>should gmail be keeping everything secret after they patch.
>
>I guess if gmail team did not want to make a public disclosure of the
>vulnerability, the gmail folks would send a private e-mail to people
>like yahoo, if it was found to be a current issue for other webbased
>e-mail services, or in future possibilities.
>
>If none of the above, can we expect the "hacker" to make an
>announcement once he has heard back from the vendor that a solution
>and patch has been implemented.
>
>If this was a private disclosure, then no one would be asking for a
>public announcement of the vulnerability, but since this has been made
>into a public, high profile disclosure, is it not right in the public
>interest for ethier the "hacker" or gmail team to make the
>vulnerability known, after its safe to do so.
>
>Thanks,
>
>n3td3v
>
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