Responsible Disclosure: Abandoned Buckets and Billing Emails


Error saying the bucket does not exit.

A few weeks ago, I received a billing email from my phone provider O2. While glancing at it, I noticed all the images were broken. Viewing the source of the email showed that they were all coming from http:// mcsaatchi-email-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/o2/... What happens if we visit that domain? Ah, the dreaded "The specified bucket does not exist" error. At some point the images were served from that domain but someone deleted the bucket. This is a problem. Amazon doesn't reserve…

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Fairwell InMobi - Hello Telefónica!


The Lab's logo.

Sixteen months ago, I climbed a rattly staircase behind a restaurant to a fairly typical "start-up loft". My first taste of InMobi. I was enthralled! I've spent the last year driving the developer relationship process in the company, watching as we've grown from 15 people in a small room to 70 people in swanky London offices on the Strand. InMobi has sent me all over the world - South Africa, San Francisco, Romania, Barcelona, Bangalore, Cologne, and Bath! It has been an amazing adventure, …

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