Crack Windows XP With... Windows 2000

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 15, 2003 @10:27AM from the if-you're-sitting-at-the-machine-anyhow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this story seen on Brian's Buzz on Windows, access to a Windows 2000 CD is all that is needed to bypass all (well, most) Windows XP security features. An attacker can boot up XP and start the Windows 2000 Recovery Console which allows them to operate as any user, even Administrator, without requiring them to enter a password. This method even allows someone to copy files to removable media, something which normally the Administrator can't even do in the Recovery Console."

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Re:DMCA by blibbleblobble · 2003-02-15 11:27 · Score: 2, Flamebait

"So, is a windows 2000 install disk now illegal under the DMCA as a circumvention device?"

Absolutely. You may laugh, you may moderate it funny, but if you can get this into court and sue microsoft for publishing a circumvention device [which protects copyrighted material on your windows partition], you have a great example with which to shoot down the DMCA.