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Re: NT Password Security Update. Registry values changed!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Brown)
Wed Dec 13 04:47:49 1995

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:40:06 +0000
From: Andy Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: Ted Cabeen <cabeen@netcom.com>

Ted Cabeen wrote:
 
> Well, I did some more research into the NT password security issue and I
> discovered that I can get access to the Security section of the registry

How did you do that?  The SECURITY section is always greyed out and the
operating system will not allow you to change the permissions on it.

If you did indeed gain access to that area then you've probably found a
flaw in the tamperproof capabilities of NT.


- Andy

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