Sounds cool. Battering ram is easier, though. I said, deal with, not
solve.
Matthew Flaschen
North, Quinn wrote:
Sadly, Not even that will help you anymore ...
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/08/24/lock-bumping-revisited/
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From: full-disclosure-bounces@lists.grok.org.uk
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@lists.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Matthew
Flaschen
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:20 PM
To: cardoso
Cc: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Putty Proxy login/password discolsure....
I have a dual WinXP/Debian boot, and I deal with that problem by locking
my door.
Matt Flaschen
cardoso wrote:
Exactly. A few years ago I used to deal with linux fanboys showing
them
the cute trick of "linux single" at boot time. After a few hours
begging
for the admin password, I teached the trick and they usually stopped
the
brag about how security Linux was.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:34:49 -0500
Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:
PS> --On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:24:11 -0400
mflaschen3@mail.gatech.edu
PS> wrote:
PS>
PS> > Windows offers no security against local users. It is trivial
to boot to
PS> > a program like ERD Commander and replace admin passwords. On
the other
PS> > hand, PuTTy is meant to protect against everyone; that's why it
doesn't
PS> > allow saved passwords. Thus, this seems like a vulnerability to
me.
PS> >
PS> Unix offers no security against local users either. If I can sit
at the
PS> console, I can login in single user mode, mount the drives rw and
edit
PS> /etc/passwd all day.
PS>
PS> Furthermore, I can take any hard drive, with any file system on
it, and
PS> with the right tools I can read everything on the drive, even
deleted stuff.
PS>
PS> So what's your point? That when you own the box you own the box?
PS>
PS> If you first have to own the box to get to the information, then
it's not a
PS> vulnerability. It's not best practice, but it's not a
vulnerability.
PS>
PS> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
PS> Senior Information Security Analyst
PS> The University of Texas at Dallas
PS> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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