You might think those naughty pictures you took of yourself in varying states of undress, wearing a skimpy outfit that can only be described as a ‘top shelf’, were strictly between you and your intended recipient when you idly sent them as an MMS. Oh how wrong you were (mwuhaahaahaa etc).
There has been a serious privacy policy heart attack going on at O2, as significant quantities of MMS messages have been published all over the web. Apparently it’s all the iPhone’s fault, as the problem affects handsets that can’t display picture messages, (which naturally includes a whole heap of other handsets too).
Recipients of MMS messages that can’t view them on their handsets have been receiving links to a web-based viewer instead so they can view the images online. The trouble is, there is no username or password is required to view the message, and the anti spam blog, Mail Channels, has found that some images could be viewed merely by doing a Google search.
Worse still is the fact that not only are the pictures viewable, but the sender’s phone number too, causing O2 to go into full on panic mode releasing this statement:
“We have temporarily taken down our MMS web-based viewing service while we investigate this issue fully.”
Just one more good reason to never take an MMS capable phone with you to any occasion that may involve the imbibing of judgement impairing elixir.
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