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Shady: Gmail Backup Software Found Harvesting User Passwords

it.slashdot.org — It appears that a popular Gmail backup utility, G-Archiver, has been harvesting users' Gmail passwords. This was discovered when a developer named Dustin Brooks took a look at the code using a decompiler. He discovered a Gmail account name and password embedded in the source code.

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  • GuerillaC, on 03/11/2008, -0/+0I like this quote: "it was debug code and was unintentionally left in the product" - It's not like Google has hundreds of programmers checking through all of their code or anything...
    • QuackQuack, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1G-Archiver was NOT written by Google.
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