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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: TheCelestialOne on June 26, 2002, 05:17:04 am

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: TheCelestialOne on June 26, 2002, 05:17:04 am

To all Hotmail users :

Microsoft is abusing your email adress and personal information from your .Net passport.

To check it go to your hotmail account and click "options" (next to "address book"). Then go to personal profile and after that you have to scroll all the way down and uncheck the three options on the bottom of the page.

The options are :

Share my e-mail address.
Share my first and last names.
Share my other registration information.

AGAIN : THIS IS NO JOKE!

 
:mad2: DAMN MICROSOFT

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Blitz_Lightning on June 26, 2002, 05:21:34 am

Attaboy, go Linux! :D

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: wEvil on June 26, 2002, 05:26:49 am

oh wow....how surprising.... :nervous:

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Blitz_Lightning on June 26, 2002, 05:28:50 am

At least it aint as bad as the Kazaa worm/virus/i forget what is was...

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Ryx on June 26, 2002, 05:37:29 am

old news. :blah:

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Nico on June 26, 2002, 05:53:58 am

Quote

Originally posted by Ryx
old news. :blah:

not for everybody

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Blitz_Lightning on June 26, 2002, 06:16:07 am

Hmmm... does yahoo have the same sorta stuff?

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Stunaep on June 26, 2002, 08:17:49 am

that's why I never use free e-mail services. I got one from my
old ISP and saved the address when I went cable.

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Kazashi on June 26, 2002, 09:08:44 am

Thanks for letting us know, 2 months after the initial round of announcements isn't that bad is it?....

The funnier thing is, alternative browser users can't access and change these new options without identifying themselves as IE

Not that I notice anyway, better the spam and junk be sent to that one place than one of my real accounts. :)

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Stealth on June 26, 2002, 09:24:23 am

did any hotmail user ever check any of those three options anyway?

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: delta_7890 on June 26, 2002, 10:45:34 am

Well I'll be damned...

*adds Microsoft to The List*

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: JBX-Phoenix on June 26, 2002, 12:50:13 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Stealth
did any hotmail user ever check any of those three options anyway?

No, didn't even know they were there :o

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Blue Lion on June 26, 2002, 01:20:20 pm

*didn't have any information to give away*

And yea I heard bout this like a month or two ago

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: vadar_1 on June 26, 2002, 04:26:11 pm

oh jeez fellahs, calm down. Its just so people can see your first and last name in your profile when searching for you. Usually used for MSN Messenger.

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: wEvil on June 26, 2002, 04:27:12 pm

And in other news today -

worldcom damage faith in capitalism with the biggest fraud in history!!

Good!  if we kick it again maybe we can get rid of the whole dysfunctional system!!! :D

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Blitz_Lightning on June 26, 2002, 05:03:01 pm

Mmm yeah... WorldCom is accused of $3.6 billion fraud.

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 26, 2002, 05:47:34 pm

This is NEW to you? Most services requiring login have something like that. Yes, it's so that if you're an idiot and don't read to uncheck the boxes they can spam you, but THAT IS HOW COMPANIES MAKE MONEY ONLINE. Selling you to corps. Think TV would be free without commercials, hmm? Or that newspapers would be so cheap without all the stupid, annoying ads? Wake up, you're acting like a newbie.

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: TheCelestialOne on June 27, 2002, 01:48:30 am

The options only appeared after a year or so... :mad2:

Title: WARNING! MICROSOFT HOTMAIL ABUSE! (no joke)
Post by: SlipStream on June 27, 2002, 03:30:38 am

That was new news to me.
Illhave to post this at the kiith Forums. Just n case for those who don't  know.



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