Christian Jones wrote:
On 8/27/05, black reaper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also, a BIOS password can be easily removed if one has physical access to
the box. The small CMOS battery can be popped out, and put back in (on the
motherboard), erasing your password.
Not always, actually. I have a Dell laptop that's rumored to store
the password in some kind of ROM. Whatever the technical aspects,
removing the battery (actually, cutting the leads to it) didn't remove
the password.
Note that I'm not actually suggesting this as an effective security
mechanism, since most of these laptops also have a "Master" password,
but this one didn't---or at least none of the ones I tried with the
help of a Dell support person worked. Still,. just important to
realize that it may or may not be as easy as popping a battery out and
in.
Its hard to be a "hard target" With Windoze on this HP zd8000 monster,
I have no less than 3 passwords that I have to give before I can do
anything. Then all of my essays on me, life, family (disfunctionsl) are
all encrypted.
I wrote Linus (who works about 3 miles from where I live) and told him
to tell Gates to fix the miserable XP-Pro encyption. I made the mistake
of encrypting my entire "My Documents" folder. That cpu now is OpenBSD
only, haha. When I did the encryption it brought the laptop to a
standstill.
On the same subject, does anyone really know what XP-encryption actually
means? My god, I would pick Blowfish if I had a choice.
Rob.
