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February 11th, 2006, 03:42 PM
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Drives, dongles and passwords
Hi guys,
Not sure where this question should go, so I went here. Sorry if it is the wrong place dear administrative friends.
I would also like to point out that I am not interested in trying to get into other peoples computers or doing malicious things in any way, but I am not a keen censor, and think of restrictions as a necessary evil.
I have been curious for a few days now on the whole topic of the Admin password thing, particularly in windows xp. Due to finding this site, and also because of some spyware and or adware I found on my computer, I thought once as clean as I could be, maybe a change of password might not be a bad idea (who knows if any of what I had was a keylogger) and all the research I have done seems to point out that it is pretty much a done deal in that if you forget your password then you are stuffed. Now I am guessing that this is just a done deal with everyday chaps like myself, and even more advanced peeps perhaps, but one thing is clear, unless you know someone who can get through, it is not that easy to find out how to do it on the web, which in my mind is a good thing.
Now what has come to light here after searching this site and googling, is that first of all, DON'T FORGET YOUR PASSWORD, and if you think you will, then make password recovery disc as this could prevent many tears and high cortisol levels in the bloodstream.
My question is this: I don't have a floppy drive on either my laptop or my desktop, I have a cd drive on both one of which is a burner the other just a drive, but what I do have which is my preferred data carrying type thing is a 1Gb dongle which sits on my keyring. Can this be used like a floppy? could I make a password recovery dongle? is it easy to write a self executing program which would run a program from a dongle as soon as it was connected? and is it possible that these little devices will become, or already are, the next little hacker tool.
I am interested partly because out of all my friends, I seem to be the one most aware of security for a personal computer, and I am increasingly finding myself trying to help and educate people with their nightmarishly unaware web surfing habits.
If this is the case, I suddenly becomes worth getting one of the smaller cheaper dongles that are around.
I am interested in your thoughts people.
Frondillicious
Jonny
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