Dale Mentzer wrote:
>Here is a followup message from an OS/2 list member concerning the
>security hole at HotMail.
>
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>
>Don't want to believe everything you read in the paper.
Actually I haven't read it in the paper yet. But I know that this is the
*second* time that website has been mentioned in Swedish newspapers.
>I am into cracking, and this crack has been available since early June.
A friend told me that it had been available for over a year, of course he
could be incorrect.
>M$ found out only recently and decided to take action to fix it. They
>are now saying the reason its not fixed is that the SMS system has not
>distributed the fix to all the servers. Bull hockey. There interest
>was in moving Hotmail from the UNIX systems to NT, and not fixing a
>known security breach.
Probably yes, this was what me and my friend concluded as well. But they
did change back after it didn't work as it should with NT didn't they?
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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