Here's something that made me just a little bit mad (can you say understatement) Basically, it appears that microsoft considers spam a big enough offense to close a hotmail account, but not theft or hacking, so have at it guys. :) This came about because there was a tcp wrapper program (tcp wrappers for those of you who don't know are used to make sure that connections are secure on a unix box before calling the proper service such as ftp, telnet, pop, and so on) that got hacked, and the source was changed, so that anyone using this hacked version of the wrapper program would have their user-id and password forwarded to a hotmail account. Microsoft refused to close the account because they claim hacking and theft is not a violation of their terms. The actual message is below. Kinda makes you wonder about microsoft doesn't it? (not that we needed something else to wonder about) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:36:04 -0700 From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Microsoft Hotmail I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code. I also forwarded the offending code. The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of service. Daniel -- /\/ Daniel P. Stasinski /\/ Karemor International, Inc. /\/ /\/ Software Engineer /\/ 2406 South 24th Street /\/ /\/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/ Phoenix, AZ 85034 /\/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
