RE: Password

This vulnerability has been known for a long time.  AccessData, a Utah firm,
is one with a good reputation.

Note that the vulnerabilities are not accidental.  It costs little if any
more to have good encryption software, BUT the application vendors
(WordPerfect, Word, etc.) don't want to deal with the complaints and support
calls they would get if they sold strong encryption & their customers lost
passwords.  Therefore, they sell you only easy-to-break encryption.

If you need really strong security, buy good encryption products and don't
rely on the encryption features built into your word processor, etc.

Jerry Lawson
http://www.netlawblog.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NetLawyers] Password

One of the attorneys in this office password protected a computer folder
several years ago and now wants to access teh folder, but has forgotten the
password.  He asked me how to gain access.

I did not know, but knew that the web knew.  I put in the words "wordperfect
lost password" on alltheweb.  I received 62,800 hits.  I did not go past the
first 20 hits, all of which were for commercial software that promised to
recover the password, in most cases inexpensively.

Now, I will assume that only 1/3 of the remedies actually work.  Does that
trouble anyone on this list besides me?  What would prevent me or a
disgruntled employee from buying the software and accessing all of a firm's
sensitive material?  (While the cheap software that will remedy the problem
only ties into WordPerfect, the same site offered software that would
allegedly would crack Lotus, Quicken, Quickbooks, etc.)


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