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Re: Securing workstations from IT guys

Subject: Re: Securing workstations from IT guys
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:50:46 -0500
On Nov 27, 2007 3:05 PM, Liam Jewell <ljjewell@gmail.com> wrote:
Anybody who has physical access to the machine becomes a
vulnerability.  Even if you encrypt files under an administrator
account on the local machine, simply resetting the password with a
program like Passware, will not disable the encryption.  Then an
unauthorized user can log in to the admin account with a blank
password (or a password of their choosing) and have access to all
encrypted files.


This is not entirely true.  If you reset or delete the password for an
account then that account will no longer be able to decrypt the files.
-- 
Mark Owen

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