I don't think we're overreacting. I think it's disturbing when someone so big does something so stupid. Think about how much we rely on this company for our day-to-day services, and how tough their security should be. They should have extremely stringent standards.
Someone assigned every single account the same password, in essence. This violates so many common sense rules that it's amazing: easy-to-guess user names, standard passwords, passwords sent out in regular e-mail, no authentication process, yadda yadda yadda. I mean, I just logged on and snagged three major commercial sites, just to see if I could do it. I'm batting.666 so far .
If I did something that stupid and assigned all my local office users with easy-to-guess passwords, it would be no big deal, because I'm small potatoes. But when a giant like NSI does it, it's insulting to all of us. None of us would make that mistake, and it's fair to say that most of us probably aren't getting paid whatever the NSI schmuck was.
I can just see that moron sitting in his office now.
"Hey, look! My new e-mail service is getting tons of hits! Wow, it's only been available for a few hours, and everyone is logging in with their new accounts! Unbelievable! I'm going to be a huge success! I'll be on the cover of Fortune. Hotmail, move over, baby." (sound of smacking lips)
So let's all contribute to his trumped-up feeling of greatness. I'm logging in with every name I can find (someone else's, of course) and sending congratulatory e-mails to webmaster@dotcomnow.com about what a wonderful service this is, blah blah blah.
FYI, http://mail.dotcomnow.com still works, even though the original URL sent out in the e-mail is/.ed.
And before you try it, I've already snatched clinton, lewinsky, and elvis. Heh heh heh....
Baby steps are for alcoholics. Let's see some real compatibility. Considering that IBM bought Lotus, another underdog, I held a lot more hope that they'd make a real effort.
Right on. Every two years, you have to buy a new motherboard. It's hilarious how all these guys on here are whacking at Apple for being a closed system, and yet look at the weird "upgrade" paths we have for other systems. In my closet, I have a 486, a 686 (needed a different chipset), and a P2-333. Thank God I didn't buy a Celeron, because the new Athlons I want aren't compatible with ANY of those motherboards, of course.
Come on, guys, lay off Apple on this one and point the blame where it belongs - us, for being willing to buy into it all. We've got a lot of pro-Athlon people around here who never whine about that incompatible motherboard...
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I don't think we're overreacting. I think it's disturbing when someone so big does something so stupid. Think about how much we rely on this company for our day-to-day services, and how tough their security should be. They should have extremely stringent standards.
.666 so far .
Someone assigned every single account the same password, in essence. This violates so many common sense rules that it's amazing: easy-to-guess user names, standard passwords, passwords sent out in regular e-mail, no authentication process, yadda yadda yadda. I mean, I just logged on and snagged three major commercial sites, just to see if I could do it. I'm batting
If I did something that stupid and assigned all my local office users with easy-to-guess passwords, it would be no big deal, because I'm small potatoes. But when a giant like NSI does it, it's insulting to all of us. None of us would make that mistake, and it's fair to say that most of us probably aren't getting paid whatever the NSI schmuck was.
I can just see that moron sitting in his office now.
/.ed.
"Hey, look! My new e-mail service is getting tons of hits! Wow, it's only been available for a few hours, and everyone is logging in with their new accounts! Unbelievable! I'm going to be a huge success! I'll be on the cover of Fortune. Hotmail, move over, baby." (sound of smacking lips)
So let's all contribute to his trumped-up feeling of greatness. I'm logging in with every name I can find (someone else's, of course) and sending congratulatory e-mails to webmaster@dotcomnow.com about what a wonderful service this is, blah blah blah.
FYI, http://mail.dotcomnow.com still works, even though the original URL sent out in the e-mail is
And before you try it, I've already snatched clinton, lewinsky, and elvis. Heh heh heh....
Baby steps are for alcoholics. Let's see some real compatibility. Considering that IBM bought Lotus, another underdog, I held a lot more hope that they'd make a real effort.
Right on. Every two years, you have to buy a new motherboard. It's hilarious how all these guys on here are whacking at Apple for being a closed system, and yet look at the weird "upgrade" paths we have for other systems. In my closet, I have a 486, a 686 (needed a different chipset), and a P2-333. Thank God I didn't buy a Celeron, because the new Athlons I want aren't compatible with ANY of those motherboards, of course.
Come on, guys, lay off Apple on this one and point the blame where it belongs - us, for being willing to buy into it all. We've got a lot of pro-Athlon people around here who never whine about that incompatible motherboard...
Should be www, not wwww....