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Bypassing the passwords and security features on files to get "your" data:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1548

In our experience the program managed to crack a five-letter, lower case, non-dictionary password in about eight minutes

Wow....

Yeah, it's amazing how unsecure stuff is. The UBCD comes with a program that completely rips off your admin password. You can change it or just make it blank.

What with all my practice on the Indian computers, I had it down to just over 5 minutes from boot to wipe.

Atleast things are a little better in the new releases...as long as you choose a fairly complicated password.

Define new releases. XP and down are easy as pie. I'll have to check if the newer version does Vista.

If you're talking about Winrar, well, all the stuff I download has the password in the filename so it's never been an issue.

THE JEW (RaVeN) wrote:Define new releases. XP and down are easy as pie

I wouldn't quite go that far.

Since Word documents (pre-Office XP) are encrypted using 40-bit encryption, it is actually more efficient to try every single possible 40-bit numerical key than to attempt to guess a long and complex password, since the number of variables is smaller.

If you are using Microsoft's Office XP, Word and Excel documents can take advantage of XP's increased security features. These programs use 128-bit encryption, making the documents effectively impossible to crack by means of a key search except with a few super-computers.

So if you have a fairly complicated password and XP or greater it sounds like your pretty safe.

[PX]IronFist wrote:

THE JEW (RaVeN) wrote:Define new releases. XP and down are easy as pie

I wouldn't quite go that far.

I would:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html


I did 30 of them. It didn't matter what the password was. If you don't believe me, let me have access to your machine with a cd boot for about 5 minutes and let's see what happens

Decrypting the files (if encrypted) would take longer, but the logon password is nothing.

Encrypting your entire drive:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=539144

Easy way to encrypt your entire drive:

http://www.truecrypt.org/

True Crypt

An explanation to hardware encryption and authentication:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/11/ ... tects_pcs/

Some say encryption might make your computer more vulnerable:

http://security.itworld.com/4341/encryp ... age_1.html

Steal a company's key and hold their data ransom.

Article on TrueCrypt:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/tru ... ,2125.html

Showing that even the best encryption can be bypassed:

http://www.xkcd.com/538/

Encryption laws by country:

http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/

OpenPGP is an open source version of PGP that allows easy encryption between people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard