reading someone's files

Re: The Norton Encryption thread

I'm suprised that no one has given the obvious answers on this
topic. If you have physical access to someone's machine, it is trivial
to find out what their encryption keys are. After all, the victim
types into the machine regularly -- recording all their keystrokes is
not a difficult matter at all.

Now, I agree with all the people who note that violating people's
privacy is wrong and that this individual should get a new girlfriend
rather than learning how to hack her files, but from a technical point
of view there is no challenge here at all.


Perry

> I'm suprised that no one has given the obvious answers on this
> topic. If you have physical access to someone's machine, it is trivial
> to find out what their encryption keys are. After all, the victim
> types into the machine regularly -- recording all their keystrokes is
> not a difficult matter at all.

   Indeed.  Archie for DEPL.ZIP or DEPLSRC.ZIP - the program is called 
Delam's Elite Password Leecher (sic) and will do exactly this task.  Also 
you could write a 5 minute TSR in the language of your choice to hook 
interrupt 9 and write to a logfile; examples of this are all over the 
net.  If you must, post to alt.2600 asking for one, and 18,000 k0de 
k1ddies will mail you back uu'd copies.

-jon
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