Re: Microsoft Hotmail

[tobkin () JAWS UMN EDU (Chris Tobkin)]

> 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.

Funny, their policy must have changed.  They promptly replied when
I sent them an email to have the kitandjp@hotmail account closed
due to the password gathering nature of the account when I reported
the sshd exploit trojan...

Here is an excerpt from their email to me..

-- Excerpt from reply ---
From: policy () hotmail com
To: Super-User <root () jaws umn edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:23:09 -0800
Message-ID: <882566BE.00807665.00 () service2 jsnet com>
X-Lotus-FromDomain: HOTMAIL
Subject: Re: Illegitimate account


Thank you for your message to Hotmail. We are aware of the account that is
gathering passwords illegally and we have terminated the account. Thank you
for your message to Hotmail. We are aware of the account that is
gathering passwords illegally and we have terminated the account.  We
suggest that you change all of your passwords.

[...]

then there is a lot of garbage about hotmail and how they won't ask for
passwords, spam, etc.

Best Regards,

Hotmail Policy Enforcement
abuse () hotmail com (408) 222-7011
Forward full message and header of email in question


--- EOF ---

Maybe this is Microsoft's newest way of getting rid of unix.. :)

// chris
tobkin () umn edu

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Chris Tobkin                                               tobkin () umn edu
Java and Web Services - Academic and Distributed Computing Services - UMN
Shep. Labs 190                                      Minneapolis, MN 55455
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