Re: Forgotten password
- From: "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 01:18:09 -0600
It may be "expensive, difficult, and annoying for ordinary people"
But these issues are not unique to Microsoft as you suggest, it is the
nature of computers with any operating system.
Without encryption or some other similar security measures, all data can be
safely assumed to be compromised regardless the operating system.
Your credentials etc, are irrelevant and seem to be intended to blur the
relevant facts.
By continuously naming Microsoft, you seem to suggest others may be secure
if stolen, which is clearly not the case.
--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org
"All Things Mopar" <nunofyour@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It has everything to do with M$ if the OP is to be believed.
I am well aware of what you say being true. I was engineering
information security manager for the company I am retired of
and preached this story over and over again, to no avail, but
that is another story.
I didn't get any connotation in the OPs query that they were
at all as knowledgable as you. Or me. I reacted to what I
thought was a silly statement, since, again, what you say is
true - if the OP's PC is stolen for its data, he/she is toast.
But, my comment stands: it is trivial to get past the classic
oxymoron of the computer age - "Microsoft security." What you
describe is expensive, difficult, and annoying for ordinary
people who only want to write an occasional letter or look at
their digital pictures.
--
ATM, aka Jerry
"Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this the War Room!" -
From the movie 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb'
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