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Minor Gmail Flaw Fixed

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Ben Charny
Ben Charny
Mar 3, 2006
1 minute read
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Google said it recently addressed a “minor security flaw” in its Gmail e-mail features, but wouldn’t comment further. Google was responding to an inquiry about a glitch blogger Ph3Rny pointed out March 1. In the blog entry, the teen theorized that the flaw could be exploited to gather e-mail addresses.

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