Jackson writes “Adam Boileau, a security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password. By connecting a Linux machine to a Firewire port on the target machine, the tool can then modify Windows’ password protection code and render it ineffective. Boileau stated he did not release the tool publicly in 2006 because ‘Microsoft was a tiny cagey about exactly whether Firewire memory access was a real security issue or not and we didn’t want to cause any real trouble’. But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved, Boileau decided to release the tool on his website.”

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