BBC 'vague' reporting again!
Benjamin Donnachie
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:01:22 +0000
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2008/12/1 Peter Sommer <peter@pmsommer.com>
> A few years ago Encase introduced a new product for deployment across
> corporate networks and which allowed all the facilities of the "local"
> product but remotely. To make this work each computer that was to be
> subjected to remote inspection needed to have a "servelet" program
> installed.
LiveWire from WetStone claims to do the same thing without requiring
dedicated software on the target machine; it just requires administrator
access. See https://www.wetstonetech.com/cgi/shop.cgi?view,14 for details.
The vast majority of the home installs of Windows I have encountered have
had no passwords set for the admin account. For obvious reasons, WetStone
are a bit vague on the exact method used to connect but it's fairly safe to
assume that a significant proportion of the people who have a machine
without Admin passwords will also not have a correctly configured firewall.
Ben
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2008/12/1 Peter Sommer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@pmsommer.com">peter@pmsommer.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A few years ago Encase introduced a new product for deployment across corporate networks and which allowed all the facilities of the "local" product but remotely. To make this work each computer that was to be subjected to remote inspection needed to have a "servelet" program installed.</blockquote>
<div><br>LiveWire from WetStone claims to do the same thing without requiring dedicated software on the target machine; it just requires administrator access. See <a href="https://www.wetstonetech.com/cgi/shop.cgi?view,14">https://www.wetstonetech.com/cgi/shop.cgi?view,14</a> for details.<br>
<br>The vast majority of the home installs of Windows I have encountered have had no passwords set for the admin account. For obvious reasons, WetStone are a bit vague on the exact method used to connect but it's fairly safe to assume that a significant proportion of the people who have a machine without Admin passwords will also not have a correctly configured firewall.<br>
<br>Ben<br></div></div>
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