#70332
04/03/2001 9:51 AM
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Hi everybody.. Search for your password(s) in the registry. You may be unpleasantly surprized, as I was... I found 3 or 4 instances of it stored verbatim in there...  Not that many people around me even know what the registry is to begin with, but you never know..
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#70333
04/03/2001 10:37 AM
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Hey TL, if people have access to your Registry then you have bigger problems  .
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#70334
04/03/2001 10:53 AM
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Master Hacker
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Master Hacker
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Anyone can have access by running regedit from the start menu run box...
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#70335
04/03/2001 11:02 AM
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Joined: Feb 1999
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Programmer
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umm, matt. if people have physical access to your machine then you have bigger security problem than your password being in the registry. Just a thought 
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#70336
04/03/2001 11:06 AM
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Master Hacker
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Master Hacker
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Isn't that what I just said? 
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#70337
04/03/2001 11:29 AM
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So we don't believe in accessing Registry remotely?
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#70338
04/03/2001 12:45 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 3,594
Moderator / Template Diva
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Anything can be done. If someone has *any* access to your Registry, be it physical or remote, you're pretty well screwed unless the person truly fits the definition of a "hacker" - that is, only trying things for the sole purpose of learning and gaining knowledge but not using it for his/her own benefit.
---Skorpion
Don't put that signature in your mouth! You don't know where it's been!
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#70339
04/03/2001 1:15 PM
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it depends, you see, if he is a little phucker then he will display an error message saying
'h4x0r3d by '
before he deletes/changes anything. and all you gotta do is either disconnect from the net, ping him to death (my choice) or turn off your pc altogether.
and, like skorp said, if he IS a real hacker he will do nothign to ya.
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#70340
04/03/2001 5:35 PM
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Yeah that's what I meant. I live in a Dorm, have a roomate, hence, issues.
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