Comments on: Privacy alert: Twitter disclosed email addresses when people sent DMs (UPDATED)

By: Don Gilmore

Don Gilmore — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:51:16 +0000

Repeat: OK, verified leak. In gmail, must choose “show original” from hidden drop-down menu right of “reply” button.

By: Don Gilmore

Don Gilmore — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:50:15 +0000

OK, verified leak. In gmail, must choose “show original” from hidden drop-down menu right of “reply” button.

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By: Greg P.

Greg P. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:34:51 +0000

In hotmail, I didn’t have to select anything – it was showing the sender’s header when I opened the mail. As noted, that is no longer the case this afternoon.

I checked back to June 13th and was still seeing the sender’s email. Then I ran out of trashed DMs.

I don’t know what the connection would be, but the so called Twitpocolypse was on June 12th. While that was mostly an issue with 3rd party apps… maybe there was some fiddling with code in the runup?

By: JonPincus

JonPincus — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:33:08 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Dan … interesting. Are you seeing your own address in the “Sender” header field? Or is the field absent?

jon

By: Don Gilmore

Don Gilmore — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:23:22 +0000

No problem here. I have now gone through about 20 received direct messages starting early May and ending today. No leakage here. Dates include 5/6, 5/16, 5/22, 5/26, 5/27, 5/28, 5/29, 6/8, 6/12, 6/13, 6/16.

By: Don Gilmore

Don Gilmore — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:14:33 +0000

I just checked several received direct messages dated 6/12, 6/13, 6/16. No problem. No leakage of the sender’s email.

By: JonPincus

JonPincus — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:41:28 +0000

Good detective work, Kevin! Looking at thel DMs in my email, it seems like the functionality got changed sometime on June 11. Is that what others are seeing?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:53:05 +0000

While what i said above is correct for the DM’s recieved up until 28 May, one i received today did contain the senders address. So this is something that they added!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:59:41 +0000

I am looking at a DM sent to me from the First Lady of Gadg Suzi Perry no less.

Now while i dont particularly want to extract her email address from the email Twitter sent, i thought id see what you guys are talking about (for when i send DM’s).

I have selected “Show Original” from gmails menu, and looking through every single one of the Email addresses in there are my own. and there’s about 10 of them.

Either this has been fix, or was never broken