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Password Protection or not...
There's an article on Lifehacker about recovering passwords with free tools. It's a little scary really. After all, we go to all this trouble to create a safe password with all the trouble of learning the random collection of digits, and then someone comes along with a free tool and steals it as if you'd just used password.
It goes to show that physical security can be just as important as virtual. Give someone access to a computer and it is suddenly very easy to steal all sorts of stuff.
If you do read the article, remember with great power comes great responsibility. Don't be stupid and try and steal other peoples details. It's against the law for one thing.






Well you gotta keep in mind to just use this for you and your computer. Don't be using it on other people's computers.
But thank you for that link. It helped me get my dad's password so I could stop him from downloading stupid stuff. Thank you again.
posted-by Windows XP | July 15, 2008 9:35 PM
I provide computer support to small business and home users in Bournemouth and I found your post very useful. I agree with with what you are saying it is scary to think that these tools are available to anyone.
posted-by Homefix Computing | September 5, 2009 1:13 PM