The e-mail service of the most popular search engine in the world, Google, is a product that has succeeded to ruin the plans of experienced companies, like Yahoo and MSN Hotmail.
Two of GMail's most important advantages over the competition are the storage capacity of over 2GB and the easy to use and intuitive interface. Google built around the e-mail product several services, such as Google Base and Google Page Creator, and will probably build many others.
However, GMail is still in Beta and this
means that there are still small bugs which can be exploited by those who want to, or know how.
But the concept that it takes many years in order to find an error in the code of the most generous e-mail service is wrong.
An announcement posted on Neowin.net talks about a bug discovered by a 14-year-old teenager. The little programmer is called Anthony, and he posted the
information on his blog.
Anthony sent an e-mail with a javascript code line from a Yahoo account to a GMail account and was surprised to find that GMail executed it. The teenager says that the code line ran because it was in the message's preview.
As Anthony says, such vulnerability would allow hackers to steal e-mail addresses or even to compromise GMail accounts.
Fortunately for the users, somebody at Google heard about this and in 24 hours, the problem was fixed.
Still, this discovery raises some questions over the tight security many companies tout and makes us wonder what would happen if a team of experienced programmers really wanted to crack the e-mail services of some online giants.
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