Re: Gotmail insecurity

paul cannon <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:20:34 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.gotmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:23:10PM +0000, Paul Dunn wrote:
> Hi
> I typed in uilogin.srf on Google and it came up with links to pages such as 
> this one:
> 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/download.php?item_id=6909&item_file_id=894
> 
> If you look at the bottom of the fifth large paragraph you will see this 
> user's Hotmail login name and password, and this wasn't the only page like 
> this.  It seems to me that Gotmail user's Hotmail accounts are at risk.  I 
> would advise that you do something about this.

Paul-

Thanks- I'll forward this on to the appropriate list. Note that we've
always encouraged users to star out or change passwords that appear in
debugging logs.

-- 
paul