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# Journalists: do not use Hotmail
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/03/journalists_do_not_use_hotmail/
- Published: 2014-03-20T23:38:04.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:13:23.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalism, microsoft, security, sources

Microsoft [accesses a blogger’s e-mail without permission to track the source of a leak](http://recode.net/2014/03/20/blogger-psa-dont-use-microsofts-web-mail-to-receive-microsoft-leaks/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> One of the revelations in this week’s case of a Microsoft worker who leaked pre-release Windows 8 software was that Microsoft accessed the Hotmail account of the blogger to whom the data was leaked. And it did so without a court order.

Your sources are *not safe* in Hotmail (now Outlook.com). (In fact, the standard guidance of “get online sources who need protecting offline as soon as possible” applies…)