> > Requires physical access to the computer. With > > physical access, you can do pretty much anything > > you want to any computer. > > > > Why don't you bother to mention this? (That's a > > rhetorical question, everyone already knows the > > answer.) > > > > Isn't there a feature in Vista that puts a bunch of > files on a flash drive to accelerate the boot sequence? > This would be a path to really exploiting this.
Yes, that's part of ReadyBoost. I will repeat, however, that with physical access to a computer--any computer--all bets are off. Given that, I don't know that "exploiting this" is really the right phrase to use. Any computer can be "exploited" if I can sit down at the console and do whatever I want to it. This is a non-story. When I first saw it on Friday, I wondered to myself how long it would take Tom to discover it and post a message that omitted the bit about requiring physical access. The answer turned out to be, less than 36 hours. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
