[174739] in North American Network Operators' Group
GMail contact - misroute / security issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Taylor)
Sun Sep 28 23:43:06 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:42:56 -0500
From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi,
I'm looking for a GMail contact.
My wife is receiving someone else's emails.
Specifically she is receiving emails for <first name><middle
initial><last name>@gmail.com (no dots) when her email address is really
<same first name>.<same middle initial>.<same last name>@gmail.com (dots).
I don't know if this is a "feature" or a "bug", but either way, it's
disquieting my wife. (Unhappy wife = unhappy life.)
I view this as both non-RFC compliant behavior -and- a potential
security risk. (Registering a GMail account as
<someone><famous>@gmail.com (no dot) to capture email for
<someone>.<famous>@gmail.com (dot) emails.)
Please reply or email me directly at gtaylor (at) tnetconsulting (dot)
net for additional details.
Thank you and have a nice day.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
P.S. Thus far messages to postmaster@gmail.com and abuse@gmail.com have
gone unanswered.
