[9257] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Hotmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Georg Schwarz)
Wed Jan 27 15:45:32 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 23:17:16 +0100
Reply-To: Georg Schwarz <schwarz@PHYSIK.TU-BERLIN.DE>
From: Georg Schwarz <schwarz@PHYSIK.TU-BERLIN.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <36ADFD04.1FD6375D@karemor.com>
> 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.
please keep in mind that there is probably no proof or any plausible
evidence that the ower of that address has actually something to do wit=
h
that hacked up tcpd version. It *might* just as well have been a third
party who inserted that address in order to make that owner loose that
particular email. I don't think it's very likely, but it cannot be rule=
d
out, so simply closing down the account without any further knowledge o=
f
that case would, IMHO, be a wrong move for a service provider, maybe
even violating customers' rights (depending on that country's laws).
--
Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
Institut f=FCr Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
Technische Universit=E4t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
