Cracking Windows passwords in 5 seconds (Cool concept, unless you, you know, use Windows)

SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ Mailing List ^ | July 22, 2003 | Philippe Oechslin

[Pan_Yans Wife]

That's like to old saying that a locked door only keeps honest people from breaking into your home.

[CyberCowboy777]

Any secure 2k Domain is not going to have *real* data on a workstation. Data will be secure within a database with file and network security. Most users will have no access to the data and limited access to network 'sites'.

We happen to run a mixture of Intranet apps and local apps with data connections to servers of one sort or another.

Any data you might get from access to a local PC is expendable.

A windows network does not mean locally stored data with no network security outside user and file level protections.

[Southack]

Precisely.

[CyberCowboy777]

Would I use a 2K/Active Directory/SQL system for a bank?

no.

But I would not use a Unix system for a paper mill.

No one system fits all industry and business and some are inherently more open for purpose and 'other' precautions must be taken.

[Southack]

Indeed.