Re: Does hotmail passwd. secure?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

On 06/04/01 19:01 +0530, Kingsly John spewed into the LI bitstream:

> 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 !!
 
 Hotmail uses a very strong grade of SSL, so anybody sniffing your passwords in
 transit is not going to be very easy.

 That said, there _have_ been occasions in the past when hotmail has been
 h4x0r3d and passwords stolen.  There's also the usual "social engineering" /
 "phishing", where someone pretends to be "hotmail staff" and asks you for your
 password.  [this is why actual mail from hotmail staff is tagged with two blue
 arrows these days]
 
> How secure is your password... as long as it's not guessable I guess it's
> secure.
 
 yep.  sort of.  Much safer than (say) your passwords at $local_isp (most of
 whom have systems that are full of holes as a swiss cheese)
 
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