full-disclosure - Re: Social flaws / vulnerabilities in 'Last account activity' on Gmail

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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:47:55 +0100
From: AaRoNg11 <aarong11@...il.com>
To: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Social flaws / vulnerabilities in 'Last
	account activity' on Gmail

If the job was that sensitive of a job, do you really think they'd be using
gmail to send important information?

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:00 PM, n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:36 PM,  <redb0ne@...h.com> wrote:
> > No, not time to "scrap this feature".
> >
>
> Yes time to scrap this feature, its pointless. Once they are in the
> account, they have gotten what they wanted, they don't care if a fake
> IP address is left in the 'Last account activity' list.
>
> The only thing the 'Last account activity' list feature really does is
> reveal the victims IP addresses.
>
> Someone who has broken into a Gmail account, the last thing they care
> about is being reported to Google!
>
> People think hackers just want to sit stealth and read emails, thats
> not always true, usually they are after one specific thing, or in this
> case a list of IP addresses, they don't care if the victim changes the
> password after seeing a fake IP address in the 'Last account activity'
> list. They've already gotten what they came for and left.
>
> All the best,
>
> n3td3v
>
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