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July 24, 2005

Hotmail can't verify itself

OK, I know it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but it's time to poke fun at Microsoft once again. The Sender ID framework developed by Microsoft and other industry partners is...
... an e-mail authentication technology protocol that helps address the problem of spoofing and phishing by verifying the domain name from which e-mail is sent. Sender ID validates the origin of e-mail by verifying the IP address of the sender against the purported owner of the sending domain.
In principle, it's a great idea and Microsoft has already started using it with Hotmail which is owned by them. But as my cropped screenshot below shows, they need to work a little bit more on the implementation (click graphic for larger version):


It looks like they forget to register their own servers with Sender ID. Oops.

2 Comments:

  • At 8:40 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Ever since MSN Messenger "improved" to version 7- I can no longer use my analog camcorder & ATI All-In-Wonder card for a webcam....

    Don't you just love MS improvements?

    :^P

     
  • At 12:43 p.m., Blogger Jason said…

    Ouch! Trillian has some webcam support now supposedly (even the free version). Have you tried it?

     

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