Outlook turned eBay into DD-Bay: Topless busty babe mysteriously fronts souk's emails eBay UK customers got an unexpected eyeful this week – after a busty topless model bafflingly appeared in some of the online tat souk's emails. When viewing receipts, notifications, and other messages from eBay.co.uk in Microsoft's Outlook mobile app, it seems the sender was a soft-core porno star looking over her shoulder as …
"If the avatar is still in your email client, an Outlook account reset (Inbox >> Gear icon >> Email Account >> Reset) will remove it, we're told. "
Umm, just out of curiosity, is there any way to not remove this avatar from my email client?
Asking for a friend, naturally.
I have a little liquor glass (inherited; I don't know how old it is but I think it's at least two generations above me), looks almost like a small eggcup from a distance.
When full, it displays a very NSFW lady. When you drink up, she disappears.
"Considering her assets are very clearly surgically enhanced and pretty much well beyond the natural range they enter the Uncanny Valley for me."
You're wrong.
A bigger picture is found here. Her name is Ewa Sonnet and according to her Boobpedia page she is all natural and looks natural to me too.
All links NSFW, obviously.
Of course, the Reg journos should have dug up all this information themselves.
I'm glad it's not just me that has learned something today! (I'm not referring to the site per se, but the fact that such things exist. Now I'm not sure whether I should get out more or less - avoiding people seems to be a valid option in the light of this revelation!)
Some bumbling boob seems to have made a right tit of himself. Do you think MS will let us know when he's busted? It's not like they are ElReg's bosom buddies. My guess is they are udderly ticked off that some got a glands at the pic and will be holding the details close to their chest.
Gut feeling is it was an accident and somebody's feeling accident porn at the moment.
This round's on me, so y'all don't notice me sneaking out ...
Coat? What coat?
I'm in Sonoma, California. I have no idea where my coat even is at the moment, because I haven't needed it since the end of February. I might go looking for it in mid November, if needed. (It's 0025 hours on Sunday morning here, the thermometer on the wall of the barn reports 64F, 17C ... supposed to be 83F/28C this afternoon.)
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I'm betting they're using 128 bit hashes or 122 bit type 4 UUIDs for image IDs. The odds say that they have no chance of colliding but number theory says they must collide. When you might accidentally lose all of your money or broadcast porn, go for what number theory says. (I have once witnessed type 4 UUIDs from different places colliding.)
The birthday problem for this sort of clashes is well studied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack
If they did use 128 bit hashes, then the probability of a clash is very low even for billions of images.So I guess that either
1. They really do have billions of hashes, and were just (un)lucky here.
2. Somebody has worked out the algorithm used and manufactured a hash collision.
3. They are using far fewer than 128 bits.
4. This wasn't a hash attack.
Given the combination of account it happened with, and the image that ended up being used, I would tend towards this being something that was done deliberately.
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