Re: help !!encrypted files?

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From: george (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:15:50 +0100

That's why all of this basically boils down to:

- No matter how advanced or sophisticated you make the technology,
   if you use it carelessly it won't do you any good, other than complicate
things
and
- Physical access just translates into: You're in the driver seat.
  It might take you any number of (more or less complicated) detours (if any
at all!) but eventually you'll get there.

All other discussion as to how, why, whatfor is purely academic.

My 2c

george

"NobodyMan" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:40:53 +1100, "David Candy" <.> wrote:
>
>>NTFS is not easy to get around. XP is a military grade security system. It
>>controls weapons and C3.
>
> NTFS is very easy to work with; it is no more difficult in basic
> operation than any FAT file system. Ask 9 out of 10 users what
> changed when you moved them from FAT to NTFS and they will have no
> idea.
>
> Further, XP is not a "military grade security system." It is merely a
> computer Operating System.
>
> I also doubt you'll find the computers that are running most military
> weapons systems using XP. IME, most use custom written applications
> and operating systems.
>
> Now, if you are talking about 128 bit ENCRYPTION, that's another
> story. It provides encryption good enough for top government level
> high-encryption, protecting top-secret and above data. Why on earth a
> home user needs that is above me.
>
>>But any computer is vulnerable if anyone has physical access. That is what
>>efs provides - encryption of data so people can't suck the data off the
>>disk.
>
> True enough. And encryption does provide a level of security. The
> huge flaw in the XP employment is that it is only as strong as the
> person's password. Once I get on to your computer using your account,
> the encyrption is transparent. As a vast majority of home users don't
> have passwords, any encryption they use is worthless. Of those home
> users who do use passwords, a vast majority use very weak passwords
> that any halfway competent password cracking program could crack
> within a few minutes. Kind of scary.
>
>>If XP is running then you cannot access data.
>
> As above - if XP is running with no or very weak password protection,
> then encryption does absolutely no good and all that data is there for
> the taking.
>

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