[Pollard]

The audit team is unable to get past a partition on the 385 tabulator machines without a second password.

Plug a Live USB stick with Linux into the machine and boot up to Linux. Linux doesn't care about windows passwords/security. Browse the files to your heart's content. Raspberry OS might be even better for an embedded system.

[WildHighlander57]

Pollard wrote:

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“The audit team is unable to get past a partition on the 385 tabulator machines without a second password.”

Plug a Live USB stick with Linux into the machine and boot up to Linux. Linux doesn’t care about windows passwords/security. Browse the files to your heart’s content. Raspberry OS might be even better for an embedded system.

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I wonder if they’ve tried that.

[Rocco DiPippo]

If the partition is encrypted, and that's probably the issue, forget it without a password. Booting into Linux is useless in that case.

Rainbow Tables or Brute Force are what you're left with and either method is an extremely long shot unless whoever set the password did something idiotic like setting it to something like "Biden2020" or something with just letters and numbers in it. Then cracking it would be quick and easy. Pretty sure that CyberNinjas already threw everything in their bag of tricks at it to no avail.