Friday, September 21, 2001

MS Front Page 2002 Licence Agreement Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/1443226 reports that the latest MS Front Page licence agreement prevents you from any anti-microsoft Web content with it: "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ..." I always click through licences these days, so I wouldn't have read it (not that I'd install Front Page anyway), but what is the world coming to! Is this legal in _your_ country? Alistair McDonald Bacchus Consultancy www.bacchusconsultancy.com [UCITA (RISKS-21.27,45,41) seems to make this legal in those states in which UCITA has passed (at least Virginia and Maryland). Incidentally, The Risks Forum tries to be an equal-disparager forum, but it is worth noting for the record that each issue is prepared using Gnu-emacs on Linux. PGN] [Alistair McDonald via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 68] 0:00 # G!

YAHA: Yet Another Hotmail Attack Yet another attack on hotmail. Computing (20 Sept 2001) reports that one can hack the hotmail web site, and redirect users to another site. This brings up the possibility of password collecting. The hacker, known as "Oblivion", reported this to the bugtraq mailing list. The exploit involves smuggling javascript code through the filters used at hotmail. Alistair McDonald Bacchus Consultancy www.bacchusconsultancy.com [Alistair McDonald via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 67] 0:00 # G!