[News] Windows 'Administrator' - False Sense of Security

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How to hack windows XP admin password

http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sudhir/Hacking/Win_XP_Hack.html

That's the equivalent of letting any local user become root.

I guess that backdoors exist elsewhere* for recovery of root password, but I
suspect that physical access is then needed.

* Even Novell publish one for SUSE.