AP Network flaw causes scary Web error

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_at_t_glitch

by talleyrand • 17 years ago

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pyre2• 17 years ago

Might want to reword this one. It's a 'network flaw' not an 'AP network flaw.'

> In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts.

I really hate this perpetuation that 'the internet' is some singular entity that keeps track of everything can be 'broken.' [See the South Park episode where 'The Internet' was a larger than life Linksys router]

enki• 17 years ago

ok, so how does a routing error cause this?

pyre2• 17 years ago

Well, they did use the example of two people getting each other's accounts. Seems like a routing issue of some sort to me. Probably something to do with a transparent proxy getting stuff screwed up.

eli• 17 years ago

Caching proxy?

stellar678• 17 years ago

Misdirected cookie? What does that even mean?

Sounds like web session data is stored on a mobile browsing proxy instead of on the phone devices, and that proxy forgot what session mapped to what phone.

AP Network flaw causes scary Web error

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