AT&T Network Routing Flaw Concerns Security Experts
The Associated Press reports that last weekend some people ran into an apparently rare routing flaw in AT&T's network that allowed them to log into someone else's Facebook without prompting for a username or password. Security experts are concerned that this flaw is fundamental to how mobile internet routing works vs the issues of a particular network so don't go flaming AT&T any more than you normally do.
The Associated Press reports that last weekend some people ran into an apparently rare routing flaw in AT&T's network that allowed them to log into someone else's Facebook without prompting for a username or password. Security experts are concerned that this flaw is fundamental to how mobile internet routing works vs the issues of a particular network so don't go flaming AT&T any more than you normally do.
The reason all three women experienced the glitch is a function of the way cellular networks are designed. In some cases, all the mobile Internet traffic for a particular area is routed through the same piece of networking equipment. If that piece of equipment is misbehaving or set up incorrectly, strange things happen when computers down the line receive the data.
