Bruce Chambers wrote, in response to my post -
Not if one takes rudimentary precautions against unauthorized physical
access to the computer, and uses a properly configured firewall. Good
point but I wouldn't put a list passwords etc on the hard disk. It only
needs one failure, one chink in the armour and it's gone. Remember that
Microsoft issues (with very few exceptions) critical and security patches
just once a month. Therefore, a security issue discovered just before the
patches are released will go unresolved for a month (and perhaps a few days
more).
How so? The two issues don't even strike me as remotely relevant. The
two issues are very much relevant! Remove and destroy a hard disk before
the (rest of) the computer is disposed of and sensitive isn't available to
who knows who.
Regards.
Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions
"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
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Bill Ridgeway wrote:
I have just run software which analyses the hardware and software of a
computer. I was surprised to see passwords to ISPs and Outlook Express
accounts which, in use, are hidden by blobs. I already knew that it is
very easy to discover passwords to MS Office files. Access to passwords
probably goes much wider than this.
This is news?
Let this be a lesson. You may not have a file containing all your
passwords for someone to steal your information. It is already on the
computer just waiting to be harvested, possibly remotely!
Not if one takes rudimentary precautions against unauthorized physical
access to the computer, and uses a properly configured firewall.
This strengthens the argument for removing and destroying the hard
disk(s) of any computer before disposing of unwanted computers.
How so? The two issues don't even strike me as remotely relevant.
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Bruce Chambers
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