[ale] OT: Microsoft announces new ways to bypass security controls

[Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Geoffrey wrote:
> Of course, Microsoft isn't the only one with mail protocol security
> weaknesses.
> POP3 is probably responsible for more cleartext passwords being
> transmitted over the Internet than any other network protocol.

However, people looked -said that pop3 was insecure and added ssl, thus
pop3s was born.  imap->imaps as well.

Microsoft looks and says...he...this is bug a with rpc...fixed it, missing
bug b sitting there holding bug a's hand.