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Microsoft Taking Measures to Stop Spam at Hotmail
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Microsoft is turning up the heat on spam, filing a lawsuit to go after people it suspects of having harvested e-mail addresses from its Hotmail servers to spam subscribers.
Microsoft on Thursday filed a so-called John Doe suit in the federal court for the northern district of California in San Jose. The suit doesn't name defendants, but allows the plaintiff the power to issue subpoenas as part of the investigative phase of the trial.
The defendants are accused of using a "dictionary attack" to discover active Hotmail accounts. A dictionary attack is one in which a computer program goes through every entry in a dictionary in an attempt to guess passwords. In this case, the program guessed millions of random e-mail addresses to see which ones were active, Microsoft alleged.
More is at C|Net.
Posted by: Null Actor
The dictionary attack thing doesn't work if you have a long enough account name at hotmail. I have a hotmail account going on two years old that has yet to receive one piece of spam (well, that isn't from hotmail itself).
Posted by: g33k
how long is a "long enough account name"?
just trying to block myself from these spammin' idiots.
Posted by: d!g!talhardcore
I just noticed something funny about Hotmail's block feature. I tried to block an email sent by M$ about reasons to pay for the "better" account, it would let me. It said I couldnt because of Administrative reasons... annoying. Plus I get a bit of normal spam as well.
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