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[FYI] Fwd) passport hacked




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From:           	"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
To:             	cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Subject:        	passport hacked
Date sent:      	02 Nov 2001 18:57:13 -0500


http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48105,00.html


Stealing MS Passport's Wallet
By Brian McWilliams

12:25 p.m. Nov. 2, 2001 PST

To correct serious security flaws, Microsoft on Friday disabled the
virtual wallet function of its Passport service and has begun
notifying partners about the vulnerabilities, the company has
confirmed. 

The bugs in Passport , a sign-on service used by more than 165 million
people, were discovered this week by Marc Slemko, a software developer
who lives near Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters. Slemko
is a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. [...]

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