<div dir="ltr">(Stop sniggering. This is serious.)<div><br></div><div><div>Hi, disappointed sniffers of whiteboard markers<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Another in my series of software development disasters.</div><div><div><br></div><div>As you know, programmers often include back doors in their code to allow quick and easy high-privilege access during testing.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, they don't <i>always</i> remove the back door from the source code before compilation and implementation.</div><div><br></div><div>This can happen to the smallest coders, and the biggest, such as Microsoft in 1999.</div><div><br></div><div>This famous example might be worth mentioning to the kids.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:1.24em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',serif;font-size:14.039999961853px">"The handful of lines of simple HTML code that constitute the exploit took advantage of a Hotmail login script called "start" that is not currently used on the Hotmail welcome page, and the password "eh."</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:1.24em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',serif;font-size:14.039999961853px">"After examining that code early Monday, outside security experts <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21495.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none;outline:none">suggested</a> that the problem might have been a backdoor inadvertently left open on Hotmail servers by Microsoft engineers.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:1.24em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',serif;font-size:14.039999961853px">"Microsoft vehemently denied the backdoor suggestions, and instead described the problem as "an unknown security issue."</p></div><div>Read more at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/12538/Hackers-in-1999-discovered-a-flaw-that-allowed-logging-into-any-Hotmail-account-with-the-password-eh-ab731-3">http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/12538/Hackers-in-1999-discovered-a-flaw-that-allowed-logging-into-any-Hotmail-account-with-the-password-eh-ab731-3</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/08/21503">http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/08/21503</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1iv2jl/til_in_1999_hackers_revealed_a_security_flaw_in/">http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1iv2jl/til_in_1999_hackers_revealed_a_security_flaw_in/</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px"><i>My woman drives me to drink. I have to walk back home.</i></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZV04xVUpCaVJTbHc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZaG9iYzlkRTE2YkVkS2x0Mk4vM1Fja3BYdFYwPQ"><br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZN1ZEdkJ3aHdLUjA&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZcENFZ21BMmczdy9FRzcvSmgrQ2w3d2M4Nkl3PQ"><br></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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