Google Presentations Security Issue Leaked Email Addresses

By Barry Schwartz

Published: September 19, 2007 at 10:28 am

Nathan Weinberg reports that Google fixed a security issue with the new Google Presentations, which leaked user email addresses to the public.

What happened was that when webmasters tried to embed presentations into their web pages, it would then log people into Google Talk via their Google Account. After they logged in, to view the presentation and to chat, it would display the user’s email address to all those who wanted to see it.

Nathan reports Google has fixed the security issue about 15 hours after Google Presentations went live.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

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