Cc Hot Wife: Gmail exposes contact names
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Cc Hot Wife: Gmail exposes contact names
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#3I can see how this might be surprising for people, but it's also basically how email has always worked -- so it's a bit weird to ding Gmail for it. The address book would need to have two entries for names: one for you to type as a shortcut, and one to put on the outgoing message.
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#4I can see how this might be surprising for people, but it's also basically how email has always worked -- so it's a bit weird to ding Gmail for it. The address book would need to have two entries for names: one for you to type as a shortcut, and one to put on the outgoing message.
I mention in the post that, if nothing else, this feels more like a UX failure.
Yeah, this _is_ expected behavior, but at the same time I think will catch most people off guard, especially people who aren't as technically inclined.
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#5I can see how this might be surprising for people, but it's also basically how email has always worked -- so it's a bit weird to ding Gmail for it. The address book would need to have two entries for names: one for you to type as a shortcut, and one to put on the outgoing message.
I'm trying to work out how the author came to the presumption that contact names would ever be private. As in, what other software are they using where that would be a standard feature?
The closest I can come to is _maybe_ SMS where names never transit the system, only the phone numbers. So whatever name you associate to a number in your phone stays in your phone.
Email has certainly never worked that way.
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#6> Issue a warning or otherwise make it clear before sending when a contact name differs from the email's official sender name.
An email [address] does not have an "official sender name", so it is impossible for anyone to do what the author is suggesting Google should do.
The behaviour is potentially unintuitive, but also an almost inevitable result of how email has always worked.
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#7This is by far the humblebraggiest of any security incident report I've seen
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#8It's kind of impressive how much this post exposes how little knowledge the author has about email. Not the best look for someone who is trying to get hired for their dev skills.
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#9> Issue a warning or otherwise make it clear before sending when a contact name differs from the email's official sender name. An email [address] does not have an "official sender name", so it is impossible for anyone to do what the author is suggesting Google should do. The behaviour is potentially unintuitive, but also an almost inevitable result of how email has always worked.
A lot of people don't realize that any sort of verification for email isn't part of email, but came later. SPF and DKIM help, but they're relatively new and still not required.
Wasn't that long ago you could set your FROM header to whatever you wanted and be pretty sure the email would be received.
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#10This is by far the humblebraggiest of any security incident report I've seen
Seemed like the opposite to me, they're outing themselves