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Passwords on MS Vista
    #8135852 - 03/12/08 08:07 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

How hard is it to get around a start-up password in MS Vista.


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Re: Passwords on MS Vista [Re: Brainiac]
    #8138782 - 03/12/08 08:15 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

i would hope impossible, but i'm sure thats a pipe dream...never looked into it though..they do say that vista actually has good security

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Re: Passwords on MS Vista [Re: Brainiac]
    #8139133 - 03/12/08 09:15 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

You're not likely to get past the startup password, but that only secures your data so long as nobody has physical access to the hard drives. If someone can physically remove the drives (or even boot that machine off CD), they can mount the filesystem without your login password and get at all your data.

Look into TrueCrypt for real security:

http://www.truecrypt.org/

It can transparently encrypt an entire hard disk (yes including the boot partition!) with strong encryption. If you don't need that much security, TrueCrypt can create a new virtual drive letter such that everything stored on that virtual drive letter is encrypted.

You could keep sensitive information stored only on the virtual drive and by just shutting down or rebooting, the drive gets locked until you enter the password again.

It's truly transparent and very fast. TrueCrypt is one of the most elegant pieces of software I've seen in a while.


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Re: Passwords on MS Vista [Re: Brainiac]
    #8148832 - 03/15/08 09:42 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I do it every day with a program called Samurai Password Reset at work. I don't understand how someone can forget a password. Well unless they had some sort of memory disorder, but other than that it's like forgetting which key opens your house.

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