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Hotmail Servers Shut Down by Code Red

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the is-it-a-problem-yet dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "SF Gate has this story about Code Red taking down some of Microsoft's Hotmail servers. That's funny." So is Code Red a problem yet? Meanwhile my sircams have stopped, except for 2 people who mail me a hundred or more a day. Thank god for filters, but if I had a monthly bandwidth cap, I'd be pissed.

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  1. I know it'll be said a billion times.. by xtermz · · Score: 1, Redundant

    but how can MS promote it's whole .NET/Passport philosophy if the very same services are proven to be insecure. And why hasnt MS been made accountable at all? Is it simply their huge media machine they have working for them, or are people truly that blind to the insecurities and downfalls of MS software?

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  2. Make Sense by e-matt · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That would explain why I couldn't get to one of my hotmail accounts

    I just assumed they migrated that server to Win 2000 from BSD

  3. FSPD (Funny slashdot post of the day) by EMH_Mark3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Heh Thx, I needed this :)

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  4. Re:This reminds me of Dilbert by Colz+Grigor · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I imagined the conversation to go a little differently...

    Bill: What happen?
    MS Admin: Somebody set up us the bomb. We get signal!
    Bill: Main screen turn on.
    MS Admin: It's you!!
    Code Red: All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
    Bill: What you say?!!?!

    . . .

    ::Colz Grigor

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