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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. Burning Reichstag by perdida · · Score: 3, Troll

    If this is Microsoft's unviersal security solution, I can';t believe they'd put out something that can be so easily cracked without knowing it.

    Is it concievable that M$FT is deliberately designing holes, staging exploits and publicizing them in order to get popular support for federally controlled security systems and universal elimination of anonymity?

    The anthrax could be the same thing.. government allowing it to spread, or spreading it themselves, to pressure Congress to pass the USA PATRIOT act, which they did, and to pressure us to accept strictures on our behavior?

    In both cases, ask: Quo bono? In the current climate, who benefits from these activities?

    Terrorists don't benefit from the anthrax, and OSS doesn't benefit from these Passport exploits. In both cases, the government benefits.

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  2. i want to go home and play civ3 by smack_attack · · Score: 4, Troll

    What happens when someone steals the basket with all your eggs?

    Send special forces to kill the bunny. And cluster bombs, lots of fucking cluster bombs

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  3. It's Karma Time! by ekrout · · Score: 0, Troll

    Time for me to be a bit fece^H^H^H^Hfacetious. Microsoft is an Evil Empire(TM). Their products are the joint effort of thousands of easily brain-washed students fresh out of college who decided, at the last minute, to major in computer science rather than business.

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  4. New XP campaign song by dbretton · · Score: 0, Troll


    Faster than the speeding light she's browsing,
    Trying to remember where her wallet ran,
    She's lost herself that Ebay afgan,
    Waiting for the time when MS shall be as one

    And I feel like I just got robbed
    And I feel...

    (all apologies to Madonna)

  5. hooolllyyy by edrugtrader · · Score: 0, Troll

    shiiittt.

    haha. ms you suck.

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  6. Re:Passport liability by Galvatron · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh yeah, because under 8 years of Clinton, Microsoft was making huge payments for security breaches. Oh wait, no they weren't.

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