Sunday, February 16, 2003

Slashdot | Crack Windows XP With... Windows 2000. An anonymous reader writes "According to this story seen on Brian's Buzz on Windows, access to a Windows 2000 CD is all that is needed to bypass all (well, most) Windows XP security features. An attacker can boot up XP and start the Windows 2000 Recovery Console which allows them to operate as any user, even Administrator, without requiring them to enter a password. This method even allows someone to copy files to removable media, something which normally the Administrator can't even do in the Recovery Console." [Privacy Digest] 8:13:57 AM    comment []

Gestures For The Linux Desktop [Slashdot] This sounds interesting, not being a Linux user I'll have to wait for the Windows version.  The main point I got out of the story was that we need to have some common Gestures that everyone agrees on otherwise it will lead to chaos, which will make it less useful. It also reminded me of the Pocket PC world(and Palm).  The QuickWrite(?) system used a looping gesture for keyboard input that I always found very cool.  I've also seen password entry systems that used a very similar concept, you would draw a diagram on the screen to enter your password.  It would take line breaks, order etc. into account.  That way you could even have your "password" in clear view.  It would still be missing the order and line breaks that are used to make it actually work.  It is still a better idea to not leave something like that out in the open, but I think you get the idea.   8:00:17 AM    comment []