[108101] in Cypherpunks
Hotmail to patch IP forging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damaged justice)
Thu Feb 4 16:38:35 1999
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:20:58 +0000
From: damaged justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Cc: damaged justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
Reply-To: damaged justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9902044hot
"Hotmail, the free E-mail service provider based in Redmond, Wash., hopes to
have a patch ready by Monday for a security hole that would let a malicious
user forge an E-mail message from any online user's IP address. That IP
information can be collected when the user visits a Web page, and it can
then be used to forge a libelous or threatening E-mail, officials said."
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Civil Liberty thru Complex Mathematics .:. of fear - and behold, do ye now
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unarmed, ignorant peasants." .:. - Principia Discordia
