Experts Urge Password Changes After Massive Cyber Attack
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Was just reading this online and thought I would pass it on. Then again I didn't know people still used hotmail and yahoo as well.
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We need fingerprint, voice, eye scanners so we don't have to keep changing passwords.
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I'm not sure we need any of that intrusive stuff….
And I still use Hotmail. Send me a PM here and I get a message via Hotmail that someone loves me (or despises me).
And I am the same person on lots of sites, a disposable address if necessary.
And I don't think the 'security breach' is that serious - I can still retrieve Hotmail messages without MS screaming at me to change anything.
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Glad to hear no issues on your end. Love and Despise just hope not at the same time.
It is crazy the amount of passwords we all have floating about. -
I used hotmail since the day it was create. I saw the big security ad, it was on Yahoo magazine.
concerning security only one solution: rent a dedicated server ( a real one not a virtual crap) ( that cost from 5 to 30 euros/month) then you can have your own VPN service and your own mail service : you can easily pipe the output to a program so each mail that comes is encrypted in the inbox folder , this way : (in the case of an imap box) only you can connect to the server ( you can put several connection mechanism on top of each other, basically you can use a smartcard to connect to the server via an SSH tunnel or via a vpn and then the mail service will only allow local ip to check the imap box, or use the smartcard to hold the private key so it never exist on your computer to decrypt the mail, you can add mechanisms to block everything if failed attempts are detected etc. ).
If some government want to access the server, or physically get the hard drive, they only get crypted messages in the inbox with no key to decrypt it.
Decryption is only made on your remote computer , When you send an email and want to keep outgoing mail, you do the same, you pipe to a program that crypt the outgoing email, save it, and shred any remains of the unencrypted message on disk.
I think this is the best way though not the ultimate security stuff, but this way you only rely on you and if yoru server is hacked no data get compromised. If you wanna know more about how to encrypt your inbox/outbox : https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email
problem with hotmail is that if someone want to F*** you that's easy: they try to connect to your account, and hotmail will lock it as it detected too many bad password. If you didnt provided a phone number ( I never provide that kind of info) then the account is burnt and that's over your account is disabled forever as you cant prove you are the rightful owner (been there..) , one more good reason to have your own mail service. -
That seems a lot of trouble just to get a disposable email account.
I did have a problem with Hotmail when I signed in once using a VPN (my silly fault, I should have signed in and then used the VPN). They blocked the account because I was signing in from a different location.
I have completely forgotten how I sorted it out but none of it involved giving Hotmail any further personal details.
