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Posted: 08.29.2002 Hotmail...not so hot... Yahoo! still blows. Film at 11. Think using Yahoo or Hotmail e-mail at work protects you from your boss’ prying eyes? Think again. New spy software essentially lets employers or parents co-pilot virtually any kind of e-mail account, including private Web-based e-mail accounts like Yahoo and Hotmail. A new version of eBlaster spyware will secretly forward all e-mail coming and going through such Web-based accounts to a spy’s e-mail, allowing anyone to ride-along even supposedly private e-mail.Just a little heads-up to those of you who haven't heard the word yet. Be careful out there folks... (Get the full scoop at MSNBC.com.)  ...virtually any kind of e-mail account, including private Web-based e-mail accounts like Yahoo and Hotmail... The way it is put, it seems like Yahoo and Hotmail would be harder to spy on than 'regular' POP3-mail... I guess the opposite is true, how can anyone expect that webmail would be save? You are typing a message in plain text over the internet, how save can that be? I guess every networksniffer can collect Hotmail and alike webbased e-mails... ¤ ¤ credit: Mark | 08.29.02 at 06:09 AM | link- -this ¤ ¤ Well, that's darn annoying... I use Yahoo to forward stuff to myself from home, but I use a web-based system for my kosub.org personal email. I'm hoping that such a system would ignore it (as the article implied) because it's small potatoes compared to Hotmail and Yahoo. Then again, my campus is so cheap that the enrollment office only had $8 in postage to send out hundreds of acceptance letters. So maybe I'm just projecting. Thanks for the link, though. :) ¤ ¤ credit: Mariann | 08.29.02 at 07:19 AM | link--this ¤ ¤This is exactly why I will be using an encrypted connection to my home computer to check my personal email if I ever get a desk job at a corporate entity. :) ¤ ¤ credit: ste | 08.29.02 at 10:15 AM | link--this ¤ ¤Dammit! You mean I have to stop reading all of that smut in my Yahoo account? Shoot, my boss is gonna kill me....oh wait, I am the boss. Phew! ¤ ¤ credit: sphinx | 08.29.02 at 11:46 AM | link--this ¤ ¤pcAnywhere is my friend and savior. ¤ ¤ credit: Amy | 08.29.02 at 01:05 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Boy, I sure am glad I like and trust my boss. ¤ ¤ credit: jana | 08.29.02 at 01:16 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I'm not sure that I trust anyone at this point. Even if my boss does seem nice every once in a while. It's worth blowing the digital dust off of PGP and seein' where that stands! ¤ ¤ credit: Stu D. | 08.29.02 at 10:54 PM | link--this ¤ ¤k ¤ ¤ credit: samar rahal | 04.17.03 at 01:04 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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