A man defending himself against a terrorist charge connected with the 11 September attacks is having difficulty proving his case, as the FBI can't track down his Hotmail account. According to the Washington Post, Zacarias Moussaoui needs the email records from his xdesertman@hotmail.com account to back up his alibi about flying lessons he took in Minnesota.
But FBI officers claim that they can't find the account and have a certificate from Hotmail to prove it. Hotmail's recently introduced policy of deleting all information in an account that has been dormant for 30 days, and its habit of recycling the user name after 90 days of inactivity, could be an explanation for its apparent non-existence.
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