[thelist] [OT] Stolen laptop + Rails tip

Juha Suni juha.suni at sparecom.fi
Thu Feb 16 07:35:37 CST 2006


Ian Anderson wrote:
> c. Booting from a floppy or CD, do they get to see files on the hard
> disk?

It is very easy to use a boot disk with specific software to reset the 
windows 2000 administrator password. These boot disks are readily and freely 
available in the net. Therefore, yes, they could easily access all your 
stuff.

Most likely they did not steal the laptop for the information but for the 
hardware, and therefore will propably wipe it. I'd still go and change any 
important passwords ASAP.

-- 
Suni 




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