“Holy crap. 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,” Michael Bettiol reports for The Boy Genius report.
“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,” Bettiol reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it… The Google Voice application replaces Apple’s Visual Voicemail by routing calls through a separate Google Voice telephone number that stores any voicemail, preventing voicemail from being stored on the iPhone, i.e., disabling Apple’s Visual Voicemail. Similarly, SMS text messages are managed through the Google hub—replacing the iPhone’s text messaging feature. In addition, the iPhone user’s entire Contacts database is transferred to Google’s servers, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways. These factors present several new issues and questions to us that we are still pondering at this time… We are continuing to study the Google Voice application and its potential impact on the iPhone user experience. – Apple Inc.
Stuff and nonsense. A – that was only voicemails posted somewhere publicly anyway. B – Google’s already fixed it. C – Apple didn’t report that to Google or mention it in their report, and anyway their report was clearly someone designed to come up with a defensible answer rather than the real answer.
D – it’s completely not acceptable that Apple continues to block Google Voice apps. I am one upset customer, and I’m not the only one. It’s one more reminder that Apple would be just as bad or worse than Microsoft as a monopolist.
iDon’t Google Voice.
Is it me, or does the idea of even software listening to your voicemail just seem a little creepy any way?
I just turned that off right away.
I’m really sorry to say this, but the Leo Laporte guys who mocked Apple with caricatures of 8 year old logic now look like… idiots.
Face it guys, you read the first 4 words of Apple’s message and that was it.
And now you have to go on air and say, “Wow. Google’s Voice is totally not ready for prime time…”
listen to stacia, it sounds like they do something illegal
Google is.
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Voicemail and text messages stored on yet another server? Is it not enough that its stored on our mobile providers server? Think I’ll be sticking with my iPhone’s sms and voicemail apps.
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