17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com> wrote:
Given the recent comments about insecure machines, I thought it was interesting to note that you can clear *every* password on an NT box by using a diskeditor to corrupt the password file (Boot off of a floppy and use NTFSDOS if you have to). It'll reboot several times and then you'll be allowed to login.
You can do the same with every other operating system that doesn't have an encrypted filesystem; Microsoft was just the only company dumb enough to claim their filesystem was secure because they didn't think that anyone would reverse-engineer it.