If you have a Hotmail account, this is probably "a good reason as any":http://securityfocus.com/archive/75/320768/2003-05-05/2003-05-11/0 to switch to Yahoo; the "security vulnerability":http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-1000429.html of Passport (the "authentication system":http://www.passport.net/Consumer/Default.asp?lc=1033 that protects your Hotmail account + any other info you have associated to Passport) is staggering. Too bad "the problem has been fixed":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/30/tech/main538597.shtml; i wanted to read some friends' email. :)
Yet another screw-up in the long list of Microsoft's "inability to produce secure products":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/25/tech/main513342.shtml.
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