Saturday, 26. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 9:33:00 AM CET
Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries Guess how many Arab countries? EIGHT!
Microsoft appears to have turned off the always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Hotmail users who have set their location to any of these countries receive the following error message when they attempt to turn on the always-use-HTTPS feature in order to read their mail securely:
"Your Windows Live ID can't use HTTPS automatically because this feature is not available for your account type."
Journalists and others whose lives may be in danger due oppressive net monitoring in those countries may wish to use HTTPS everywhere and are also encouraged to migrate to non-Microsoft email providers, like Yahoo and Google." https-everywhere [eff.org]
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