Passport's Pocket Picked

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?

Comments

Burning Reichstag

[perdida]

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.

i want to go home and play civ3

[smack_attack]

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