Vista lolness
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:11 pm
Someone brought me a PC to fix and it has Vista on it (ugh) and I just realized now it's password protected and he never gave me the password. After trying a few obvious ones like blank, password, god, etc I noticed something funny. When you get the password wrong, it still says "welcome".
I remember back in college my security teacher said to NEVER put welcome on any interface that you do not want people to enter. he was talking mostly about router login screens. By putting welcome you are saying that anyone who is not yet authenticated is welcome in the system.
Because of this, if someone (with a good enough lawyer) was to brute force a vista password and get into a system unauthorized, the case could be dropped because the computer said he was welcomed. Not sure if this only applies in Canada though. Just a funny observation I made.
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I remember back in college my security teacher said to NEVER put welcome on any interface that you do not want people to enter. he was talking mostly about router login screens. By putting welcome you are saying that anyone who is not yet authenticated is welcome in the system.
Because of this, if someone (with a good enough lawyer) was to brute force a vista password and get into a system unauthorized, the case could be dropped because the computer said he was welcomed. Not sure if this only applies in Canada though. Just a funny observation I made.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:5146, old post ID:39334
