FYI:
I am posting this email to the list only because I know several list
members have hotmail accounts.  Please do NOT start a thread about this on
conch-l.  If you are interested look at the URL in the post.
Amy

>Date:         Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:07:56 -0400
>Subject:      HotMail Cracked
>
>HotMail (Microsofts Free
>Email System) has been cracked. The gist of the crack is that a backdoor
>has been found which allows anyone to get email messages for any given
>user.
>
>There has been some debate as to whether or not this is a Microsoft
>programming issue or not, and SlashDot seems to have this debate covered,
>so I'll leave that issue there. http://www.slashdot.org/
>
>The point is that if you have users who are using Hotmail at home, you
>might want to recommend that they, 1.) clean anything sensitive out of
>their Hotmail accounts immediately, especially credit card numbers and
>other money stuff if they ordered anything through their hotmail accounts
>2.) explore an alternative email service provider. Changing your password
>is not going to work against this issue, so its probably best to exercise
>an extreme amount of caution.

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