Google Voicemails, Meet Public Google Search… OMFG!
This post was published 5 months ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Sure, Google’s motto may be Don’t Be Evil… But it says nothing about “Don’t be Stupid”. Seems like Google Voice has one big doozy of a bug… All Your private voicemails can be accessed by anyone via a simple Google search.
Uh oh!
It seems that Google is going to have some pretty serious explaining to do this morning, as one of our readers has sent us in a tip that reveals a major security flaw involving Google Voice. After entering “site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/* ” into Google, our reader was shocked and discouraged to be greeted by 31 voice mail messages belonging to random Google Voice accounts. Clicking on each revealed not only the audio file and transcript of the call, but it also listed the callers name and phone number as it would if you were checking your own Google Voice voice mail. We’re not too sure if this flaw is something new or if it has been around since Google Voice started, and could just be test messages, but needless to say the matter has to be fixed [...]
Wow, this is only a few, but it sure is interesting
This is easily explainable; those pages are the links you get in your e-mail when you get a new voice message. The link allows you to listen to the single message without logging in, so the google search results must be for links to voice messages that people posted on the web. I think this is a non-story.
Even less onerous – everything that was on there were voicemails that people had explicitly shared. Not “all your private voicemails.”