Comments on: Who knew it was that easy?

By: aperson

aperson — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:54:55 +0000

Regardless, konboot takes no time and removes the password entirely.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:44:48 +0000

What are you talking about?

Ophcrack is done in under a few minutes. I use it when people forget to tell me their passwords and I need to work on their machine. Most people don’t have a password for the admin account anyway, so just boot into safe-mode, reset their password and you’re away.

Windows “Security” is a joke.

By: Stanley

Stanley — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:51:40 +0000

I hope your passwords are greater than 15 characters. In WinXP, when the password is greater than 15 characters, it uses NTLM hashes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM).

By: aperson

aperson — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:58:33 +0000

I swear by konboot: http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/

I know there’s other ways to just reset a password with a linux cd (I can’t find the exact method I’ve used, :S). Either way, I’d imagine it’d be easier than cracking it.

By: technologyunit

technologyunit — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:42:17 +0000

Thats just scary… Plain and simple…