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XP Passwords Rendered Useless

Sat, 02/15/2003 - 22:31 — jbreland

In yet another display of Microsoft's amazing knack for security, it's possible to gain Administrator (or any other user) access to the Windows XP filesystem by simply booting into the Windows 2000 Recovery Console.

One more reason to switch to a real operating system.

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Sun, 02/16/2003 - 19:41 — dwgranth (not verified)

Re: XP Passwords Rendered Useless

well, is it any surprise??... i mean, i could crack win2k with a specialized linux boot disk ;)