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What is this referring to?

• 27182818284 10y ago
  I believe this is referring to the ebay password submission that was on the front-page yesterday. The summary was that Ebay seemed to be sending each typed character of the password field back home.
• deleted 10y ago
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• sp332 10y ago
  At least eBay https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12000820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12000820 and Twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002103
• unfathomable 10y ago
  > Facebook wants to know why you didn’t publish that status update you started writing. > Unfortunately, the code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typed—even if you decide not to publish it.* It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/facebook_self_censorship_what_happens_to_the_posts_you_don_t_publish.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/1...
  • cm3 10y ago
    Reminds me of the Petraeus scandal where they communicated via unsent Gmail drafts in a shared account. EDIT: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal Petraeus and Broadwell used fake names to create free webmail accounts exchanging messages without encryption tools. They would share an email account, with one saving a message in the drafts folder and the other deleting it after reading it.
    • techthroway443 10y ago
      Brilliant
  • scholia 10y ago
    Wasn't that story thoroughly debunked? The data flows didn't support it, and Facebook denied it.