hey George,
Send me a file, Word or something, encrypted this way - I want to see how good the protection is, and how long it takes me to crack it (my record for a WORD document with a 7 character mixed case and alpha/numeric password is... 3.5 DAYS... Hell, it's a Windoze program.....:-) Jon >They're probably Windows 2K or XP an I've used encryption.. it's based on >the users login and works quite well for once.. files transfered to another >machine or access by a different account is useless.. > >thanks, >George Vieira >Systems Manager >Citadel Computer Systems P/L >http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, January 16 2002 2:52 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hardware Theft > > > > Take a look at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23664.html - OK, >it's > > the UK, but makes you wonder how many of OUR Government computers have >suffered > > the same fate ? > > > > I know of one machine that was taken, the theif reaching in through an >OPEN > > WINDOW, from Mascot Police Station, that contained a database of known > > criminals (and I *don't* mean Windows users !!) in the area. > > > > Hey, YOU voted for them !!! > >The Federal Liberal is just as bad...... > >I heard on the radio this morning that over 500 laptops >went missing from the ATO, the Defense Dept, Health >and and DFAT. > >No one knows what was on the disks or if it is readable. >Darryl Williams (AG) said that the laptops had a >"password encryption" feature. I guess it was probably >the windoze user passwd.... > > > >rachel > >--------------------------------------------- >This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. >http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ > > >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
