> I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account > of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code. > I also forwarded the offending code. > > The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft > of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of > service. Funny, their policy must have changed. They promptly replied when I sent them an email to have the kitandjp@hotmail account closed due to the password gathering nature of the account when I reported the sshd exploit trojan... Here is an excerpt from their email to me.. -- Excerpt from reply --- From: policyat_private To: Super-User <rootat_private> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:23:09 -0800 Message-ID: <882566BE.00807665.00at_private> X-Lotus-FromDomain: HOTMAIL Subject: Re: Illegitimate account Thank you for your message to Hotmail. We are aware of the account that is gathering passwords illegally and we have terminated the account. Thank you for your message to Hotmail. We are aware of the account that is gathering passwords illegally and we have terminated the account. We suggest that you change all of your passwords. [...] then there is a lot of garbage about hotmail and how they won't ask for passwords, spam, etc. Best Regards, Hotmail Policy Enforcement abuseat_private (408) 222-7011 Forward full message and header of email in question --- EOF --- Maybe this is Microsoft's newest way of getting rid of unix.. :) // chris tobkinat_private ************************************************************************* Chris Tobkin tobkinat_private Java and Web Services - Academic and Distributed Computing Services - UMN Shep. Labs 190 Minneapolis, MN 55455 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Thanks to the printing press, the deviant smart people were able to distribute their genius without having to pass it on genetically. Evolution was short-circuited. We gained knowledge and technology without gaining intelligence." - Scott Adams *************************************************************************
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