This is quite amusing to me as an IT professional. You're using the new Outlook client which is cloud-side stored data to sync everywhere, and the way you access your email on an IMAP service is...
This is quite amusing to me as an IT professional.
You're using the new Outlook client which is cloud-side stored data to sync everywhere, and the way you access your email on an IMAP service is to send user/pass information. In the new Outlook client it needs those logins so it can work.
It looks like it's poorly stored locally in a file for Outlook, in a file that you can easily check to get the creds. However, this is in your account, nowhere else. It's transferred over an encrypted channel though so it's not clear through the internet. MS then pull your email from your IMAP provider through their filters and evaluate your email before you see it. They're trying to give you a freebie feel for what it's like to have their Exchange Online service. Of course, at the same time they'll grab some stats but they're not stealing your credentials as this article is making out.
The big vendors are moving their servers to no longer have plain old user/pass creds as they are easily hacked. Everything is MFA with oAuth2 and revokable token/access keys. This is the future for any secure platform. Don't blame MS for using your insecure user/pass IMAP service to give you a better experience when the issue is that your provider should be doing things better in the first place.
I'm not a fan of what a lot of the bigger companies do with our data. However, some of the engineers are phenomenal and the services the companies offer are amazing compared to what was offered 5-10 years ago.
Is this paywalled or is that a cookie policy confirmation popup? All the text in the popup is in German, despite the article being in English so I have no idea what it says, and I can't seem to...
Is this paywalled or is that a cookie policy confirmation popup? All the text in the popup is in German, despite the article being in English so I have no idea what it says, and I can't seem to get past it no matter what option I click, instead always getting redirected afterwards.
/offtopic
Edit: Mirror, for those who (like me) couldn't manage to see the article: https://archive.ph/N27k5
Not sure what it says and I can't be bother to throw it through a translator, but I don't think it's a paywall because I can get past it and read the entire(?) article just by hitting Reader View...
Not sure what it says and I can't be bother to throw it through a translator, but I don't think it's a paywall because I can get past it and read the entire(?) article just by hitting Reader View in my browser.
I always forget about Reader View, probably since it doesn't always work to get around stuff like this. Oh well, I managed to find the achive.ph mirror (and shared it above) so I could read it...
I always forget about Reader View, probably since it doesn't always work to get around stuff like this. Oh well, I managed to find the achive.ph mirror (and shared it above) so I could read it anyways. But thanks for reminding me about Reader View's existance. :P
This is quite amusing to me as an IT professional.
You're using the new Outlook client which is cloud-side stored data to sync everywhere, and the way you access your email on an IMAP service is to send user/pass information. In the new Outlook client it needs those logins so it can work.
It looks like it's poorly stored locally in a file for Outlook, in a file that you can easily check to get the creds. However, this is in your account, nowhere else. It's transferred over an encrypted channel though so it's not clear through the internet. MS then pull your email from your IMAP provider through their filters and evaluate your email before you see it. They're trying to give you a freebie feel for what it's like to have their Exchange Online service. Of course, at the same time they'll grab some stats but they're not stealing your credentials as this article is making out.
The big vendors are moving their servers to no longer have plain old user/pass creds as they are easily hacked. Everything is MFA with oAuth2 and revokable token/access keys. This is the future for any secure platform. Don't blame MS for using your insecure user/pass IMAP service to give you a better experience when the issue is that your provider should be doing things better in the first place.
I'm not a fan of what a lot of the bigger companies do with our data. However, some of the engineers are phenomenal and the services the companies offer are amazing compared to what was offered 5-10 years ago.
Is this paywalled or is that a cookie policy confirmation popup? All the text in the popup is in German, despite the article being in English so I have no idea what it says, and I can't seem to get past it no matter what option I click, instead always getting redirected afterwards.
/offtopic
Edit: Mirror, for those who (like me) couldn't manage to see the article:
https://archive.ph/N27k5
I assume it’s Hope That Helps
Not sure what it says and I can't be bother to throw it through a translator, but I don't think it's a paywall because I can get past it and read the entire(?) article just by hitting Reader View in my browser.
I always forget about Reader View, probably since it doesn't always work to get around stuff like this. Oh well, I managed to find the achive.ph mirror (and shared it above) so I could read it anyways. But thanks for reminding me about Reader View's existance. :P
Worked fine for me, but it didn't have any allowances in my no-script plugin (also it was in English).
I was looking to reshare, and I found Guru3D has an easier to read translation for native English speakers.