{"id":287,"date":"2012-01-25T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2012-08-31T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:23:55","slug":"ffs-o2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"FFS O2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an Internet-enabled phone? Are you with O2 (or one of the companies that piggyback their network, like Tesco, Giffgaff, etc)?<\/p>\n<p>Then they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/o2-uk-network-security-blunder-exposes-customers-phone-numbers-websites\">giving out your phone number<\/a> to every web site you visit while using mobile data.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>O2 customer Lewis Peckover recently discovered that when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re browsing over 3G on O2, your handset\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s phone number is often included in the HTTP headers sent to each website you visit, in plain text.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit Lewis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/lew.io\/headers.php\">site<\/a> to confirm that you are affected (at time of writing it was still active for me).<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/imagecache\/w550h500\/postimages\/108579\/o2-whoops.png\" alt=\"o2-oops\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">o2-oops<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Note: this is not information that is added by your phone; it is added by O2\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web proxying servers as your web traffic passes from their network to the wider internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an Internet-enabled phone? Are you with O2 (or one of the companies that piggyback their network, like Tesco, Giffgaff, etc)? Then they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been giving out your phone number to every web site you visit while using mobile data. O2 customer Lewis Peckover recently discovered that when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re browsing over 3G on O2,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=287\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}