Google Accelerator Breaks The Web?:

SomethingAwful is an relatively old Internet Humor site, which may not be to your tastes. That said, their complaints and article about the effects of Google Accelerator seem to be well backed up, and I haven’t seen this information come through my normal channels; even some of the dedicated Google weblogs don’t seem to have picked this up yet… well, at least the ones I can get through to at the moment.

Apparently the Google accelerator partially works by using your personal cookies to access a site, and someone coming in later can see what the site sent you. Because the site thinks that the cookie is adequate identification, it can send you all sorts of private information, such as message posts for some private group, or… well… anything else.

Woa, hold on now, this seems like a MAJOR problem. Really go read the rest, it’s a little bit of a nightmare. I would recommend to all that I know even if this is not really true (I think that it is from what I can tell) do NOT install this until it has been fixed. Or at least until the dust settles.

(Via iRi.)