Nick R on Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:59:02 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again


Outside of social engineering and brute force crack attempts how's this so w/ POP3?


From: Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>
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Subject: Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:12:16 -0500

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:20:02PM -0400, Andy Bradley wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.06/

The only problem I have with this and a lot of other coverage of the
cracking is that it makes the assumption that e-mail normally is
secure.  The hotmail cracking makes things a lot easier, but reading
other people's e-mail is still a juvenile task, as is faking their
address.  That's what pgp is for.

--
Morgan Wajda-Levie
http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev
PGP fingerprint:
A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616  F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C
http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key
encrypted mail preferred
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