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Passport's Pocket Picked

Posted by michael on from the department-of-insecurity dept.

emmons writes: "It looks like there's another hole in MS Passport according to Wired. This one allowing a user to steal another user's Passport Wallet, credit cards and all, by getting them to open a hotmail message. Nice." What happens when someone steals the basket with all your eggs?

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  1. Re:XP Integration is evil by innocent_white_lamb · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yup, another example of the Windows ease-of-use. "You'll damn well accept things the way that we want to present them to you". To change that, you have to horse around with all sorts of goodies.

    Change one config file in Linux/Unix and the job's done.

    What was that about Linux being hard to use again? ....

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    If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
  2. *ahem* by Chris+Johnson · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Seeing as our government is going to refuse to even attempt to hold Microsoft responsible to obeying the law, and considering the well known plans Microsoft has for us all...

    Could the next bright fellow who comes up with a catastrophic failure in Microsoft's Passport or .NET software PLEASE NOT TELL THEM ABOUT IT!

    Damn it! Can we stop freaking collaborating with them and propping them up and FIXING their problems for them while they rape our country and back us all into a corner? Can we get real here for just a second? Can we have some sense of proportion, as in 'these are the band of criminals found guilty in appeal after appeal who have corrupted even our _government_ and legal system and want us all either under control or out of commission'?

    I am _ashamed_ that people are still collaborating with them. Anyone who researches this type of exploit- if you can't have the guts to use it as a weapon (since apparently that is the ONLY weapon we have against them) can you at least quietly shrug, and throw the exploit away without telling anyone? Mind not telling the enemy, please? Is that so very much to ask?

    furrfu...