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To: steve-b

“Short stole the Digimarc printer, along with a PC containing names and birthdates, from the Department of Revenue’s contract office in St. Charles. Unfortunately for Short, the PC was locked, and he was unable to access anything on it,

If you can’t get admin on a Windows PC to which you have total physical access, you’re not going to cut a big figure in the electronic crime scene.


4 posted on 10/23/2007 6:29:37 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user

“If you can’t get admin on a Windows PC to which you have total physical access, you’re not going to cut a big figure in the electronic crime scene.”

Was the hard drive encrypted? Most government agencies are doing it now. Except for the IRS of course.


7 posted on 10/23/2007 6:40:01 PM PDT by driftdiver
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There's more to this, think it through. When a person gets pulled over, the cop calls the license in for warrants. Even if they put a picture of the user of a fake license on an otherwise legit license, it still won't link to the car they would be driving.

Getting by with this scam would require a lot of luck even if they could print the fake licenses.

8 posted on 10/23/2007 6:42:53 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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