Microsoft "sorry" after hackers access accounts

[Doug Hathaway]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Brian High wrote:

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

	I read about this on slashdot, which certainly wouldn't spin this
in MS' favor.  What I got from the discussion:

	1.  They run hotmail on Apache and BSD, not NT.
	2.  Just about any complicated system can be cracked if enough
people work at it long enough.  

> 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")

	Oh come on.  Script kiddies looking for bragging rights.
	
> 
> 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 ...

	Back in the day...when only engineers could use the internet.  

					--Doug 


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