Windows XP no longer secure?

[AMDZen]

While i agree with that... This takes it from difficult but attainable to completely trivial.

Hardly. Who is going to have the kind of hardware combined with the engineering and coding skills to make it work properly?

Bottom line. If someone really wants to hack you, and they are determined to do so - have the time and knowledge to do it - nothing is really going to stop them.

What does your average person have to fear on their average XP machine? That they are going to spend all that money and all that time to view your pr0n collection?

They have no reason to hack you thus you are safe.

 

[Acanthus]

Hardly. Who is going to have the kind of hardware combined with the engineering and coding skills to make it work properly?

Bottom line. If someone really wants to hack you, and they are determined to do so - have the time and knowledge to do it - nothing is really going to stop them.

What does your average person have to fear on their average XP machine? That they are going to spend all that money and all that time to view your pr0n collection?

They have no reason to hack you thus you are safe.

Someone leveraging this could simply break into many machines until they find valuable data.

They could also use cracked passwords to access banking information etc online if (like most users) they re-use the same password.

 

[Crusty]

Ha interesting, did not know this. But yeah does not really matter the OS if you have physical access you can pretty much do anything provided you have the right tools. Encryption will slow you down but you can eventually get in with brute force and automated processes.

If you have physical access you already have everything you need. Just take the damn computer with you.

 

[Acanthus]

If you have physical access you already have everything you need. Just take the damn computer with you.

That would make the person aware of the theft and lead to password changes to sensitive sites.

Bad idea.

 

[Crusty]

That would make the person aware of the theft and lead to password changes to sensitive sites.

Bad idea.

Like a broken window or smashed door frame isn't enough to make the person aware someone might have fucked with their shit?

 

[Acanthus]

Like a broken window or smashed door frame isn't enough to make the person aware someone might have fucked with their shit?

You sir, do not think like a criminal

 

[unokitty]

That would make the person aware of the theft and lead to password changes to sensitive sites.

Bad idea.

If you have physical access, you can just make a forensic copy of the hard drive and leave.

At your leisure, you can restore the hard drive to whatever computer you want and use a utility from say the Trinity Rescue Disk to replace the admin password.

Admin access without cracking any hashes. If you want, a forensic analysis of the Registry would give you the online passwords to other sites.

Uno