24 Aug
2009
24 Aug
'09
5:15 a.m.
BIOS password can very easily be erased on any system in about 30 seconds.
if it can boot floppy or cdrom or even hd it's simple and easy
if it can't, and you have a standard tower/pc, its a bit more work, but still about
30-60 seconds
notebooks that can't boot floppy/cdrom and replacing the hd with your own cant boot
that,
well yes you have to follow some crazy instructions listed on those sites.
HDD passwords alone seem *very* easy to hack check out "pc-3000" (yes its
$3000)
or any of those others posted here like ACE labs, etc. take about 30 minutes
HDD passwords alone seem to be totally insure with such software solutions.
Dan.
From: cclist at sydex.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:10:22 -0700
Subject: Re: Old password protected laptop drive
On 23 Aug 2009 at 11:24, Douglas Taylor wrote:
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Attention all humans. We are your photos. Free us.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666047
This thread jogged my memory on the subject, see
the following link on
how hard this can be.
http://sodoityourself.com/hacking-ibm-thinkpad-bios-password/
It's not a problem with the EEPROM in the Thinkpad BIOS--the drive
itself has locking and encryption (two-level: user and master).
Without the master password, the drive will not permit any operations
involving media access. IBM claims that if you lose the master
password, the drive is unusable; if you lose the user password, the
drive can be restored to use, but any user data lost.
I'm not aware that Teo was given anything but the Travelstar drive.
--Chuck