Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires

<http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/0...kfires>

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"Microsoft challenged the editor of PC Pro to return to Hotmail after
six years of using Gmail, to prove that its webmail service had vastly
improved — but the challenge backfired when he had his Hotmail account
hacked. PC Pro's editor say he was quietly impressed with a number of
new Hotmail features, including SkyDrive integration and mailbox
clean-up features. He'd even imported his Gmail and contacts into
Microsoft's service. But the two-week experiment came to an abrupt end
when Hotmail sent a message containing a malicious link to all of his
contacts. 'What's even more worrying is that it's not only my webmail
that's been compromised, but my Xbox login (which holds my credit card
details) and now my PC login too. Because Windows 8 practically forces
you to login with your Windows Live/Hotmail details to access features
such as the Metro Store, synchronization and SkyDrive,' he writes."
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short,
who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that
the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls
harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
-Albert Einstein