Microsoft "sorry" after hackers access accounts

[Brian High]

<snip>
  The security risk was so serious Microsoft
  disconnected its popular Hotmail system until the
  loophole was closed. 

  Hackers - those who break into computer systems -
  are drastically restricting Internet development.
</snip>


Hackers?  Crackers?  Anyway, I thought their mission
was to show users that the software products they are
using are poorly crafted ... thus aiding internet
security development.  (i.e., "testing")


<snip>
  "People have been putting credit card numbers and
  everything onto the Internet and thinking it must be
  secure, everybody else is doing it," said one user.

  Another added, "If I have a business and problems
  like this occurred I would consider legal action."

  Computer users have little choice but to trust that
  their privacy is being properly safeguarded.
</snip>


Little choice?  Trust?  I would rather place my trust
in a non-profit free-net then a profit-driven corporation
any day!

And what ever happened to learning how systems works so
we don't have to "trust"?  There are a lot of good
books out there ...


http://www.itn.co.uk/Business/bus19990831/083101bu.htm
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