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Gmail Bug Exposes Students' In-Boxes

Another day, another example of the Web's inability to protect personal information. This latest instance involves a bug in Google Apps that allowed students at several colleges to read each other's email messages, and, in some cases, view each other's entire inboxes.

Google says the incident involved only a few colleges, including Brown University, but IT directors at the affected schools suspect as many as 10 were involved. These same directors aren't happy with the way Google handled the issue, which was to simply shut down every account mixed up in the mess.

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