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June 1st, 2003, 02:57 AM
#1
Junior Member
 OMG! Micro$oft spying on us???
hehe i expect you hotmail people to bite
suppose you use 2 or more hotmail accounts: one personal, one to register with web sites, etc............
now here's an excerpt from a hotmail html session info exchanged between Outlook Express and the hotmail server when you try to read your email from any ONE of your mailboxes:
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5/31/2003 21:39:16 From Local
PROPFIND http://bay7.oe.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/h...l.com/folders/ HTTP/1.0
Depth: 1,noroot
Content-Type: text/xml
Brief: t
X-Timestamp: folders=1454282897,ACTIVE=1154213110
Accept-CharSet: Windows-1252
User-Agent: Outlook-Express/5.5 (MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; TmstmpExt)
Host: bay7.oe.hotmail.com
Content-Length: 265
Pragma: no-cache
Cookie: MSPAuth=4hUA2lNpiD6qjhDJT1wcXgEALW3mhEJWub5SHzhUL4zCGEV%21cYs6ViPDrN%21TVGKX9ULT4PzJswoYxY2yYbF5CtCw%24%24; MSPProf=4mOez%2aTDbCQYD2gzgk1Bf3kxO7PHCcv%21xDh6Q069il%21FzjbzrAQhJAUtvX9nPobu4hVCDICzEIz8eiqIVt5pJlK36iRUlLSWUws92jFIuKGHNJMda%21%2aEok4CVLAmFk7XgOVOx4dx%21UlRx4UG1IFtAgbpmJJcdgmmEySsGiW47doa0%24; HMSatchmo=0; HMSC0899=217FIRST_ACCOUNT%40hotmail%2ecomWIbELz9AkdTZTDj8CbwAx%2aSFIQ%2aU%2a646cMGvbmpTjqQ9uS1D228LNCQ%21tqMV71uxliQ4tBC9s4s%2aLRmakGW%2150%2aajA7KyJI%21vMM%2aYdzJ7kxkpSzm6o76mGPla5ry6opdCHyWvplGDh2zhXQK7WHxjfkhlZiApuC1TkqP7E6VJ2hRsFnPsj7gM1Cgr1FRwWVnnMoELj5cnp6i05tJ6En3UAVMb3%2ad52XQbXukjglUs%21eT%21n7E8CIud3dk1ew9LVmsI0cfWZa4t77vYqVCLOIS5GU5fXYqrMozdcehJP9QfijBrvdRwf1ypsGOBLoeV4wnD9agDvay7%21k9NMjtAJbhiLsw9NglVKnDXp0VSk7jBCd5v8OhTEywOO%21%2aQ78OWLvio1qy7o2DPTUyx5lKaBuwNA%24%24; HMSatchmo=0; HMMS2954=26ECB06078A512C3483E507574F73AF6B68BCAFEE62CA167C697355E91D72ED43135033ED213E8EE0064AF8762B90591DDC8854050DF1F6DF5750106B447B0DBA7F81CF1DBDDF57C; OE_UserSECOND_ACCOUNT_hotmail.com=1154520116; OE_UserTHIRD_ACCOUNT_hotmail.com=1152551481; OE_UserFIRST_ACCOUNT_hotmail.com=1254534247
Authorization: Digest username="FIRST_ACCOUNT@hotmail.com", realm="hotmail.com", qop="auth", algorithm="MD5", uri="/cgi-bin/hmdata/FIRST_ACCOUNT@hotmail.com/folders/", nonce="MTA1NDQyNzg3MjoyNzMwMjYyZjY4YjhjYzY5YTdjMjc4N2MxZWRiNDQxYw==", nc=00000002, cnonce="995921b29b3857b130ec13aed2bb99d1", response="182b7d2bebeaf41e563bdeb55e51ca59"
Proxy-Connection: Close
Connection: Close
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you may notice that I have three accounts with hotmail, and for some reason, information about ALL of them is sent to the server when I've only requested to check the email of ONE account!
why is all this info sent together i wonder??
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June 1st, 2003, 04:17 AM
#2
I would imagine it's another reason to clear your cookies after the end of a session? 
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June 1st, 2003, 08:56 AM
#3
And remember to be prompt or Decline third party cookies. Ads and things like that.
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June 1st, 2003, 03:09 PM
#4
Junior Member
hmmmm....gonna scan microsoft for that.. :P
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June 1st, 2003, 07:15 PM
#5
Humm... Ok, maybe it's just me but I don't see what you're complaining about?!
Ammo
Credit travels up, blame travels down -- The Boss
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June 1st, 2003, 09:15 PM
#6
you may notice that I have three accounts with hotmail, and for some reason, information about ALL of them is sent to the server when I've only requested to check the email of ONE account!
why is all this info sent together i wonder??
It has to do with how Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express handles web-based accounts. It's not that they're spying on you (well, at least not in the way that you seem to think), but it's simply how the program keeps track of which Hotmail account is being accessed.
AJ
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June 1st, 2003, 09:55 PM
#7
Junior Member
Originally posted here by ammo
Humm... Ok, maybe it's just me but I don't see what you're complaining about?!
Ammo
sorry i thought it was pretty obvious.
most people use hotmail to stay anonymous so they don't want their true identity to be associated with any of their "anonymous" hotmail accounts.
i use 2 "anonymous" hotmail accounts and another one that holds my real name before the @ sign.
i wish microsoft would respect my privacy and not gather information about my real identity by associating the email address that holds my real name with all the other so-called "anonymous" email addresses.
when i try to check my email from my "true" mailbox, outlook sends information about all other accounts that i have with them, including the "anonymous" ones which allows them to associate the real you with the anonymous emails and could help them to create your profile by monitoring all emails that you receive in all mailboxes.
i think outlook should limit itself to sending information about the mailbox that i'm checking, and not about all my accounts at once, since i was specifically requested only one mailbox to be checked.
i hope this clarifies my point
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June 2nd, 2003, 02:33 AM
#8
Hum, right...
Don't you think that if they really wanted to "profile" and spy on you they'd just cross-reference your IP with account logons?
I mean, jumping from "OE logs on to all hotmail accounts at once" to "OMG MS is spying on me!!!" is a pretty big step to make...
Besides, if you're really so worried about your pricacy, you might want to read the privacy statements from msn and ms passport ... You might not want to use hotmail at all after that!
Anyways...
Ammo
Credit travels up, blame travels down -- The Boss
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June 2nd, 2003, 04:43 AM
#9
Besides, if you're really so worried about your pricacy, you might want to read the privacy statements from msn and ms passport ... You might not want to use hotmail at all after that!
Your right.....M$N has (by their privacy statement) the right to use, make use of, almost anything you post, store, or transmit over M$N networks.
They also track your useage of their products, such as the Windows Media Player.
Besides, if you're really so worried about your pricacy, you might want to read the privacy statements from msn and ms passport ... You might not want to use hotmail at all after that!
Your right.....M$N has (by their privacy statement) the right to use, make use of, almost anything you post, store, or transmit over M$N networks.
They also track your useage of their products, such as the Windows Media Player.
Besides, if you're really so worried about your pricacy, you might want to read the privacy statements from msn and ms passport ... You might not want to use hotmail at all after that!
Your right.....M$N has (by their privacy statement) the right to use, make use of, almost anything you post, store, or transmit over M$N networks.
They also track your useage of their products, such as the Windows Media Player
Sorry....I'll get it right -- one of these days
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June 2nd, 2003, 05:10 AM
#10
Junior Member
You have to remember that when you access a particular domain all cookies from that domain will be stored in one place.
So if you access hotmail.com and login. The login information ( if you click on Remember me) will store the info to your browser's cookie.
Any other access to hotmail.com will always use the same cookie file which means all info is stored on the same cookie. The system all that it does is use these cookies to remember you.
Maybe you should either
a. use no cookies for that site.
b. look at your prefs in your hotmail account.
c. Use different browsers to view different sites
d. Delete your cookies for M$N.
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