Re: Does hotmail passwd. secure?

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, M K Saravanan wrote:

 |When I type my login name and password in hotmail, will it be send
 |over the network as plain text or is it encrypted?  How secure is my
 |password?

It is sent encrypted... M$FT would never want someone else to be able to
*easily* break in and steal all those *licensed* content blissfully handed
over to them by the millions of hotmail users !!

How secure is your password... as long as it's not guessable I guess it's
secure.

Kingsly


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