Network flaw causes scary Web error
January 15, 2010
A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. — Sadly, this highlights a few problems: 1) AT&T proxies everything; 2) their proxy servers are seriously flawed; and 3) AT&T is apparently in the middle of your conversations, even if they're supposed to be encrypted.