AP Network flaw causes scary Web error

Might want to reword this one. It's a 'network flaw' not an 'AP network flaw.'

> In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts.

I really hate this perpetuation that 'the internet' is some singular entity that keeps track of everything can be 'broken.' [See the South Park episode where 'The Internet' was a larger than life Linksys router]

Misdirected cookie? What does that even mean?

Sounds like web session data is stored on a mobile browsing proxy instead of on the phone devices, and that proxy forgot what session mapped to what phone.

ok, so how does a routing error cause this?

Well, they did use the example of two people getting each other's accounts. Seems like a routing issue of some sort to me. Probably something to do with a transparent proxy getting stuff screwed up.

Caching proxy?