ABC news reports on a 'man in the middle' kind of attack that a Facebook user experienced without planning to access the private space of another user.
There is much speculation as to how this particular incident happened including things like a badly configured proxy server, a poorly authenticated cookie, and the practice of HTTP pipelining to maximize available resources.
What do you think happened here and how widespread a problem might it be? Share your thoughts.
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