2009/11/30 Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be>:
> Op zondag 29-11-2009 om 00:47 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef John
> McCabe-Dansted:
>> There are also algorithms for extracting the password from XP as
>> well...
>
> XP passwords are compared to hashes, and you can't extract the password
> from a hash.

There are brute-force password cracking methods, but including
something like that as
part of the Ubuntu installation would be a bad idea for several
reasons.

-- 
Matt Wheeler
m...@funkyhat.org

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