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Slashdot Reports NSI E-mail Security Alert

Author:	Jason Kerr
Posted:	9/16/1999; 12:22:33 PM
Topic:	Slashdot Reports NSI E-mail Security Alert
Msg #:	11148
Prev/Next:	11147 / 11149

According to folks on Slashdot, NSI has created a free email system and signed up all domain owners. Without permission. And, to make matters worse, the username is the domain-id, and the password contains the username.

I don't know if this is true; I don't own a domain name, so I couldn't test it.

http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/16/0054246.shtml

If it is true, it's a really bad foul-up.

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