http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48105,00.html
It gives a brand new meaning to "Hotmail," no? :^)
There have now been SO many Microsoft security-snafus of this sort
that I'm no longer the *least bit* surprised to see them.
'Think before you trust' is Jim Ray's "big takeaway from this." More
coverage from another list I'm on is below. Be careful out there.
JMR
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"Ultimately, the big takeaway from this is that there is
no evidence that anyone has ever taken advantage of this."
Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn, on a bleedingly obvious
security hole in the software company's Passport
technology that could have exposed users' credit-card
numbers, ZDNN, 2 November 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099186,00.html
Ditherati appears daily on weekdays. An archive is
online at http://www.ditherati.com/archive/
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