Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:49:49 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Ford Prefect <fordp@guide.chi.il.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hotmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909021249020.52139-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990902093403.00ed063c@pop.interaccess.com>
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ford Prefect wrote: > I'm not speaking from any firm position here but I was unde the impression > that at the time when MS aquired Hotmail it was running Solaris, which was > replaced NT, which failed and they returned to Solaris. > > As for the security issue, I beleive that had to do with Microsofts > PassPort system, and not the operatings system itself (FreeBSD, Solaris, NT > or whatever) The word I heard was that it was poor CGI coding practices on the part of the original coders...there was a 'hole' in one of their CGIs that didn't check for a password, but it was in some obscure area/URL... > > At 09:54 PM 9/1/99 -0600, you wrote: > >On Tuesday August 31, 1999, David Greenman <dg@root.com> > > had this to say about "Re: hotmail": > > > >> >>I heard from news that hotmail was broken and the service was forced to > >> >>stop about two hours. As i know hotmail is operated by freebsd. Is it > >> >>about the security of freebsd? > >> > > >> >Hotmail used to run FreeBSD, but I believe Microsoft has replaced > everything > >> >with WinNT. > >> > > >> > >> FreeBSD continues to be in use on about 2000 server machines at Hotmail. > >> > >> -DG > > > >I would think a simple nmap probe would flush out the FreeBSD servers > >from the NT servers...but the aforementioned bug was not an OS problem in > >any case 8-) > > > > > >-- > >John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions > >Systems Administration http://www.nterprise.net > > & Network Engineering 8707 E. Florida Ave #814 Denver, CO 80231 > >I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new > >one every day. > > -- Heine > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > *=====================================================* > \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ > \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ > \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ > \ \ > \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ > *=====================================================* > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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