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friends reunited - have you had the same problem?

Just had my wife ringing me up furious that I had been emailing one of her school friends.

She had an email from friends reunited telling her that she had a draft mesage pending to a miss X.

It is a hyperlink, and when you click it - it takes you to friendsreuinited.

Trouble is - it takes you to the account page of the last person who was logged in - (I guess unless then logged out completely).

So it took her to my account. It was only when I calmed her down, and proved that she still had a draft in her account, and demonstarted the problem with cookies that she appologised.

Her account fortunately still had the draft message in,

This is a crazy privacy breach. Can you image if you don't log out properly at a cyber cafe or library - and before you say anything - this would also include a system crash or power cut situation.

The next person using that machine could end up in your account if they too have a draft message hyperlink.

Just emailed their support team for comments

Update:

Hi Libby - trouble is they can.

True I may have clicked the "remember me" since I really do have nothing to hide from my wife, and it is a home computer, but it is easy done.

The point is though, she recevied an email from friends re-united - addressed to her correctly, and yet if she clicks a hyper-link - it took her to my account - that has got to be wrong.

As you can see, even though I have nothing to hide - it was easy for her to jump to the wrong conclusion.

Update 2:

I have never been unfaithful in the 12 years we have been together, but her previous boyfriend of 9 years was always sleeping around behind her back - she never really got over it - and still now thinks you can only trust yourself - understandable really.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I bet you don't hear anything from their support team. Do you know that most marriages are now ending due to one partner linking back up with their "first loves" from school...I think friends reunited do this link thing on purpose so that they get more media attention! You sound like a good bloke, your wife is lucky....I am too, my husband doesn't even know how to turn a pc on, let alone go onto a web site.

  • 1 decade ago

    What exactly is the problem that you're worried about? Many sites have log-out times unless you say "Remember me" somewhere on the site. This actually happens with many sites because of cookies and has nothing to do with specifically friends reunited. If you're partner checked out myspace, hotmail, and then the friends site and you got on immediately after them, you would be put into their myspace, hotmail, and friends accounts. This is because the website puts a cookie into your computer that says "This is Mr X logged in. Keep him logged in while he's does things on the site for x-minutes." If you get up and Mrs X sits down in front of the computer before x-minutes has run up and before you have logged out, she is able to get into your account. The computer has no way of knowing that someone else has access to your computer after you've told it that you're you with your username and password. It believes that the person at the computer at that time is still you.

    This is why you ALWAYS log out of everything if you're at a public computer or worried about someone you live with getting into your accounts. This is just common computer knowledge.

    It seems more though that you're highly upset that your wife had gotten into your account. You say you haven't cheated on your wife, but are you perhaps having an emotional affair with the women you've been emailing and this is why you might be overreacting about you're wife having access to your account?

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • Ellie
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Not happened and i am not sure i understand it fully but no-one can access or change personal details without your password anyway- and if they want a password reminder then they have to be able to access you email account that you used to register. So if they get into your friends reunited page- thats about all they can do- so don't worry too much.

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