Re: Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

["Michael J. Gray" <mgray () emitcode com>]

I'm glad Google took the report so seriously and corrected the problem
before anyone could do anything scary with it. Oh wait...

Thanks for the link Kyle.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Creyts [mailto:kyle.creyts () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:58 AM
To: Michael J. Gray
Cc: Jann Horn; full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

from full-disclosure to in-the-wild in less than 3 weeks
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2012-May/086850.html
to http://share.cloudflare.com/3g1X141s2s3J2G2Z0e0O

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Kyle Creyts <kyle.creyts () gmail com> wrote:
> Creating test accounts and reproducing this bug sounds like a 
> responsible thing to do.
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Michael J. Gray <mgray () emitcode com>
wrote:
> > That was a bit ambiguous and I apologize for that. I meant that I had 
> > reproduced the issue several times, not created test accounts. I'm 
> > willing to bet it's not just a few accounts being affected.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jann Horn [mailto:jannhorn () googlemail com]
> > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 4:39 AM
> > To: Michael J. Gray
> > Cc: 'Thor (Hammer of God)'; 'Dan Kaminsky'; 
> > full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
> > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Google Accounts Security Vulnerability
> >
> > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:04:43PM -0700, Michael J. Gray wrote:
> > > On why I don't want to provide my email address to Google:
> > >
> > > It's a different email address which I don't want associated with 
> > > this email address for various reasons. That is why I am not going 
> > > to provide
> > it.
> > > Your assumption that it's a simple piece of information and requires 
> > > no effort to give out is correct, but the impact of the association 
> > > is unwanted.
> >
> > Sounds reasonable.
> >
> >
> > > The fact that Google can create a test account and reproduce the 
> > > issue (as I have now done several times) tells me that they want the 
> > > account information for some other purpose or that they're just being
lazy.
> > So, you now have a test account that doesn't reveal any secrets about 
> > you and which is affected... so you could surely give Google the name 
> > of that one?
> >
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> Kyle Creyts
>
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