http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/245496125/article.pl
Jackson writes "Adam Boileau, a security consultant based in New
Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in
seconds without the need for a password. By connecting a Linux machine
to a Firewire port on the target machine, the tool can then modify
Windows' password protection code and render it ineffective. Boileau
said he did not release the tool publicly in 2006 because 'Microsoft
was a little cagey about exactly whether Firewire memory access was a
real security issue or not and we didn't want to cause any real
trouble'. But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has
not resolved, Boileau decided to release the tool on his website."
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