Re: Security of Web-based email question

From: Andrew (atangel_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:18:38 -0400

6/29/2004 8:37:54 PM

"Steve H." <steve2470@funfunfunyahoo.com> wrote in message

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> I was reading one of the hacker NG's today just for kicks, and
people were

> asking how to hack Hotmail accounts. Do web-based accounts get
hacked very

> often ? I have one, obviously. TIA.

> Steve

Yes, rare, they do get hacked. I had my old hotmail hacked, but it
was a dumb password (my fault, probably just dictionaried it). There
were also a couple of holes found in hotmail in the past. Now my
password is on the long side, mixed with numbers and characters and
letters, it's ***************** <grin> and only makes sense to me.
Actually, all my passwords follow that rule nowadays.

Just to be explicit, e-mail of any kind is not private AT ALL. Unless
you encrypt it, it travels as plain text through every box it touches,
 including the servers at your job. People e-mail things they would
NEVER put on a postcard. Still surprises me that people are resitant
to e-mail encryption. 

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