Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
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Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
#2The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.
Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
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#5The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.
> It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers
So in a work environment it probably can never be used? I'm willing to bet that it won't make a single bit of difference.
Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
#6Good thing I'm still running Office 2013!!!! (and I only had to upgrade due to .pst size limits of past versions if I remember correctly - it's been a while since I moved to the brand-new-at-the-time-2013!)(and I got Windows Firewall Control, still on v.4.9.x.x version - before it became 'free' after its acquisition and move to v.5)
Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
#7The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.
You can rely on Microsoft to come up with the next abuse and make a security hole out of it.
Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
#8The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.
> free
There is the one trap-word. I am practicing a firewall-hygiene from the good-old ZoneAlarm days. If I don't need the software to 'get out', it is blocked. I only allow my Outlook to 'talk' to my mailbox carrier to bring in the emails. All other target IPs are blocked. So it can't 'phone home'. But again I'm on Office 2013 (and it still tries to phone-home).
Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
#9The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.
It's also about ten times slower to launch than Mail.
Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
#10https://xkcd.com/1118/
They didn't get away with bundling the browser, but practically, that went nowhere, and they still keep pushing Edge at every turn.
One of my pet peeves against Microsoft is, precisely, how they bundled a mail client with their office suite, and one hostile to standards at that. A mail client that, somehow, only worked properly with other Office elements, and, at some point, it created interoperability issues if sender, receiver, and mail server, weren't all running Microsoft software.