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Re: Attackers hose down Microsoft's Jet DB Engine

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> More open is more robust. Key under carpet ain't real security.
> Stallman could endlessly tell the story about using just ENTER as the
> password in MIT labs (20% of the people used this hack) when code
> ceased to be shared , thereby facilitating pseudo-security.

Sounds like the Win98 logon, that could simply be bypassed by hitting
"cancel". In XP one can obtain so-called "SYSTEM" account access just
using the task scheduler via the "at" command.  I wonder what Vista's
back-door is, other than the one Microsoft deliberately installed for
the benefit of the NSA.

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K.
http://slated.org

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