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Today, while having a look at my connections’ log of my FON account, I discovered that my account has been used 3-4 times in other FON hotspots. And, it was not me.
Here are the details:
2006-07-01 16:45:38 2006-07-01 18:45:41 2h 3s 29.35Mb / 2.73Mb FON_Cucnne El Prat de Llobregat
2006-07-01 13:18:02 2006-07-01 18:01:58 4h 43m 56s 5.37Mb / 0.86Mb FON_THENET Vitacura
2006-07-02 9:10:12 2006-07-02 9:40:17 30m 5s 4.53Mb / 0.63Mb FON_hotspot Lyon
I never used my account in other hotspots, so it seems to me a big security issue.
I just sent an email to FON support asking for a detailed explanation, because I’m obviously not happy about this. I’ll publish their response as soon as I receive it.
If there are Foneros among my blog’s readers, please have a look at your log and drop me a line if you find something wrong.
UPDATE July 4th
Just got this response from FON:
Hi, Luca:
I apologize for the delay.
This is bug in webpage, in yesterday was solved.
You can verify it. Excuse by the annoyances.Regards,
Alberto
FON support team
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July 2nd, 2006 at 8:09 pm
are you shure, you didnt give away your account data?
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:29 pm
I’m a Fonero from a few days and I’m not used to give away any of my accounts of any service I use. So, it is obviously a security issue. Unless I get a different explanation from FON.
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Hi luca ,
It seems that the database of access of fon screwed up . In my page I’m showing accesses From “latrobe” (I don’t know where the hell it is ) but the interesting thing is that the date and time is midnight 1 january 1970.
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Maybe this link can also provide some insight:
http://foros.fon.com/viewtopic.php?t=1621&highlight=
It deals with what seems to be a screw-up of their database, with an even more screwed-up restore.
Good luck
July 4th, 2006 at 10:35 am
as far as i know, this error, yes indeed!, has ben fixed now! thanks for reporting to community.
but: did you report the error also to FON, that would have been normal…
July 4th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Yes, I informed FON as well, but I’ve never received any official response from them. I’ll keep waiting…