Ever dreamed of reading other people private Gmail inbox?What if you're given the chance concidentally?
Would you tell others?
I bet you dont. If you want your name to be remembered in the Internet history, please email News.com about this or tell Google, or walk in to Yahoo and screeam as out aloud. This happens to Abdulaziz Al-Shalabi, a man from Kuwait.
He was granted accees to 30 private Gmail accounts. As he reported to News.com, he got a peek into the private information of over 30 Gmail users. How this happended?
Actually, it happens by accident. As Google Spokesman said, because of a server caching problem the ISP was facing.
Google was in contact with Kuwait ISP in question in order to find a solution to this problem. Now that porblem was solved. How to protect your Gmail account privacy? Here's some tips.
First, use a unique password that contains numbers, lower case letters together with upper case letters. This will be hard fo others to put password randomly.
Second, dont use personal information for your Gmail ID and password. Use something else such as unknown name, (but dont famous celebrity name as your ID) or random names.
Third, do not log in in front of other's eyes even someone that you trust. Close friends can also reading your gmail and delete important emails, so dont take risk. Otherwise, by the end of the day, it was you who suffer the bad effect.
Fourth, if you're using public computer in cyber cafe or public library, please log out. Otherwise, when you forget to sign out, a customer typing "http://mail.google.com" in the adress bar or in the search box, the browser will be directed to your Gmail account instead.
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