Re: Stolen server with Windows 2003

From: Paul Adare - MVP - Microsoft Virtual PC (padare_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:05:17 -0500

In article <e$RTih7DEHA.2768@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, in the
microsoft.public.windows.server.security news group, Marlin Todd
<marlintodd@hotmail.com> says...

> we had an accounting server with 3 SCSI harddrives in it.
> We had Windows 2003 Ent Edition as a member of a DC...with a alpha-numeric
> password for the administrator account!
> Can we be assured that our information is safe? Would the theives be able
> to get to the data?
>

Just the opposite. You can pretty much assume that the data is now
completely available to the thieves. 

-- 
Paul Adare
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

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