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Title: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: SilvrDrgn on February 17, 2003, 03:26:29 PM

Windows XP, which has been marketed by Microsoft as "the most secure version ever," has been found to have a flaw so bone-headed that it renders passwords ineffective as a means of keeping people out of your PC.

Read the full article HERE (http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/).

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: Jaruzel on February 17, 2003, 03:40:59 PM

That article is compelte rubbish.

First you have ENABLE a no-password login.

Secondly, XP certainly does require you enter the admin password at the recovery console.

Thirdly, XP is only ultra-secure in a DOMAIN environment. Off domain, its no more secure than WIn98.

- Jar.

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: MrZammler on February 17, 2003, 03:51:59 PM

Never used the sh*t, so couldnt care less.

Btw, what does that have to do with the Amiga?

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: KennyR on February 17, 2003, 03:56:51 PM

Because we love watching M$ squirm. :-)

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: amigamad on February 17, 2003, 04:16:40 PM

another fault with crappy xp.

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: redrumloa on February 17, 2003, 04:22:42 PM

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Btw, what does that have to do with the Amiga?

It is a rival platform and besides, what earth shaking Amiga news has there been lately?

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: ikir on February 17, 2003, 05:15:15 PM

lol :roflmao:

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: gnarly on February 17, 2003, 05:32:57 PM

I laughed at this at first, until a friend pointed out that if you want a machine to be properly secure, you dont leave working floppies and cd drives in it!

And as someone else pointed out, if someone can boot a CD disk on there, theres much worse things they can do to the machine anyway :-)

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: AmiGR on February 17, 2003, 08:00:16 PM

You didn't read the article, did you?
You boot with a *WIN2kPRO* CD and use the *WIN2K* recovery console on a *WINXP* installation.

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: seer on February 17, 2003, 08:23:58 PM

Pfff... Rec. console... Pop in NTFS DOS or CIA Commander and boot from that... No PW needed,..

To prevent; Set a password in BIOS, boot sequence c:\ only or if that's not possible in the BIOS make the boot sequence C:\ , a:\ CD-ROM... No probs...Makes it a little more harder to get unauthorised acces to a WinNT (NT4, 2K, XP) PC, not impossible...

Wonder how many people really need to go such lenghts to safeguard their (private/coorperate) data..

Title: Re: XP passwords rendered useless
Post by: Ilwrath on February 18, 2003, 12:34:53 AM

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And as someone else pointed out, if someone can boot a CD disk on there, theres much worse things they can do to the machine anyway

Exactly.  In fact, I'd go one step further.  If someone can physically touch the machine, it's insecure.  BIOS passwords can be cleared in 10 seconds.  It takes almost that long to plug in a ribbon cable and hook a floppy drive or CD up, too.

Fact is, XP has a helluva lot worse security flaws in it than this.  In a way, it's almost good, as it aids in recovering a damaged machine (or when dumbass users forget passwords)  :-D