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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:07:36 -0400
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Subject: Hotmail Accounts Exposed to All


fyi, a cheery little note from the American Library Association's list...

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Subject: Hotmail Accounts Exposed to All
Author:  "Don Wood" <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date:    8/30/99 4:52 PM


http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21490.html

                     Hotmail Accounts Exposed to All
                     by Declan McCullagh

                     8:05 a.m.  30.Aug.99.PDT
                     A catastrophic security flaw in Microsoft's
                     Hotmail service lets anyone read the
                     private correspondence of about 50
                     million subscribers.

                     The bug appears to affect all customers
                     of what Microsoft says is "the world's
                     largest provider of free Web-based email." ...

                     The exploit, verified by Wired News,
                     works this way: A Web page with nine
                     lines of HTML code can connect to a
                     Hotmail server without requiring a user to
                     enter a password.

                     [...]


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