Software Development

Here's a good example of one of the many benefits of web applications. I'm looking at Google's web application Gmail as a general case...

Gmail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In January 2005, security experts discovered a critical flaw in the handling of Gmail messages that would allow hackers to easily access private e-mails from any Gmail user's account. This was posted with detailed information to popular technology site Slashdot at 9:23 a.m. PST on January 12, 2005. At roughly 10:15 a.m. PST on January 13, 2005, developers at Gmail announced that they had fixed the problem, and that the security flaw had been patched. Despite Gmail's status as a beta application, this raised concerns among some users who use Gmail as their primary mail account.

Situation: A flaw was discovered that would affect hundred's of thousands of users and in less than an hour the security flaw was fixed and applied to all users nearly instantaneously.

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