Re: Case Security Question

From: Hairy One Kenobi (abuse_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:19:30 GMT

"Justin Case" <me@noplace.com> wrote in message
news:433add3c$1_5@cosmos.uncensored-news.com...
> This may seem like an odd ball question. I have a sister
> who asked me to look at her husbands computer.
> They are going through a divorce, she wants to
> know what is on his computer. He is a computer
> security specialist dealing with banking networks.
>
> She believes he husband has been viewing/
> downloading/storing illegal porn.
> He's an *** who is leaving her with 5
> children, he's been very abusive to her.
> She is desperate for help.
> So I too am desperate to help her.

Call be cynical ("You're cynical! <points>), but this sounds like someone's
exam question.

In RL, no spouse (even the most poisonous kind) will happen to notice
details about partition sizes while forgetting his/her password.

Cutting through the crap, it's perfectly possible to utilise a boot disk
that doesn't sit in the "offending" hardware. But (again reverting to RL),
it's far more likely that some idiot has left a disk in either the floppy to
CD-ROM drive, rather than requiring an "ali kazam" solution.

And, even then, anyome with the nonce will have either a backup, or a way of
generating a pseudo-backup disk that relies on a "personal secret"
(typically a password) 

-- 
Hairy One Kenobi
Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!