“Microsoft steals access data” (English link: https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data-Beware-of-the-new-Outlook-9358925.html German link: https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html) – When the well-known German IT portal “Heise Online” uses such drastic words in its headline, then something is up. If Microsoft has its way, all Windows users will have to switch to the latest version of Microsoft Outlook. But: Not only can the IMAP and SMTP access data of your e-mail account be transferred to Microsoft, but all e-mails in the INBOX can also be copied to the Microsoft servers, even if you have your mailbox with a completely different provider such as mailbox.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20231205082016/https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft).
They’re going to use it for AI, I’m assuming. In any event, don’t use the new Outlook – it’s a web app anyway and there’s better clients for Windows. I think. I’m not sure people are still developing e-mail clients for Windows.
Their real plan to "get rid of passwords" is really just to have access to everything you own/use and to "manage them for you" so they control all of "your" passwords.....
Old news. Awhile back I signed up for something and Chrome tells me "the password I chose was found in a breach". Ummm just why did you send my password choice to a server to get that info?
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