From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 18:33:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.mindspring.com (smtp4.mindspring.com [207.69.200.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0551515406 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2iveap9.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.43.41]) by smtp4.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22718; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:32:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37CC820D.8BCC07E0@confusion.net> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:31:57 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Kok Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: hotmail References: <37CC7D08.DFFB18AF@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As far as I know, the bug was in the software that was running the web interface, not a bug in the OS. It basically assumed if you were at a url on hotmail that was a postlogin url, then you must've been authenticated already. BTW, this would be more germaine on security@freebsd.org Peter Kok wrote: > > Hello all > > I heard from news that hotmail was broken and the service was forced to > stop about two hours. As i know hotmail is operated by freebsd. Is it > about the security of freebsd? > Now I would like to know more about security of freebsd. > > thank you > > regards > Peter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message