Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, g sent: > a few years ago +1 day, when i needed to find password for a client > running w98se, that had an employee leave. he actually was fired and > when asked for his password, he supplied wrong password. > > granted, with w98se, such was not a great problem, except that he > had also encrypted a lot of files. > > on a hunch, to see if he used same password for encrypted files, i > ran a web search to see what was available to recover his password, > and i found: Austrumi 0.9.2 iso and burned it to a cd. > > http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/ > ftp://austrumi.ru.lv/ > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrumi_Linux > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=austrumi > > on boot, it presents a list of options, among them is password > recovery for oos, which i ran and recovered his password. after > login, i found encryption program he used, ran it using his login > password and obtained access to files. Well if you use a crappy encryption technique, it doesn't matter how good your password is, if you have a technique to be able to reverse engineer it (which is entirely different from just throwing passwords at some remote service which only gives you a pass/fail result interface). Windows was well known for poor security, especially back then. And that is just one reason why you don't use the same password in multiple places. There are plenty of things with bad encryption, or the program that controls it can be subverted. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. ZNQR LBH YBBX -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
