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what are you doing oh

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uh yeah I'm trying out this uh thumb drive that claims to let you unlock any

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Windows-based PC in in just a couple

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minutes Zotac GeForce 10 series cards

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feature NVIDIA's Pascal architecture as well as other features like their ice

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storm Cooling and spectral lighting system check them out at the link in the

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video description how's my hair whatever okay

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so silliness aside this little thing right here is the password reset key too

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the followup to the original password reset key that was kickstarted by jonty

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lvll back in 2014 raising about 34,000

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Great Britain pounds now they sent me the original one for consideration for

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one of my handy Tech under 100 episodes about four months ago but I ended up

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rejecting it due to its strange behavior in Windows 10 particularly around

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Windows Live accounts versus local accounts however it turns out they were

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already in the process of working on a follow-up that that's the one they've

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sent me and that's the one that we'll be checking out today so with the password

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reset key to they've dramatically improved the UI they've added Windows 10

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support they've added Windows Live account detection though to be clear

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password reset key cannot break through the password of a Windows Live account

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and will simply redirect you to Microsoft's account recovery page and

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they've added bit Locker encrypted volume detection although again it just

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prompts you to enter your password or backup key if you want want to access

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any of those files they haven't broken bit lockers encryption that would be

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pretty big news so then what does it do

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well in the time you've spent listening to me explain the limitations you've

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pretty much witnessed the basic functionality I stripped the password

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off of a computer that was just using a local Windows account but there's more

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so by inserting the password reset key into any Windows PC and changing the

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boot mode to Legacy instead of UEFI that's an important St please note you

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will also have to disable some security features like secure boot for example

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and then changing your boot device to the PRK you'll get dropped into this

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menu which allows you to do a bunch of things really you can clone a local

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account which allows you to then strip the password off of that cloned account

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this is useful if you're a tech trying to get into a PC and you don't want the

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customer to have to reset their password after the fact you can open up a

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registry editor you can make changes to the PC using the command prompt you can

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recover files from it either directly through a file explorer and then you can

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just copy to or move to some other attached storage device or you can

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actually recover deleted files from it and finally and this one's kind of scary

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if you didn't know how easy it was to break into a Windows PC you can take the

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local administrator account which is on every Windows 10 computer and you can

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unlock and activate it which means as soon as you reboot pull out the PRK go

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back into UEFI mode if applicable you will be landed on the Windows login

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screen you'll be able to log into that account with no password required from

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there you'll be able to do anything you want to the computer including deleting

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the existing Windows Live account keeping all of that person's files and

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even setting up new accounts using it as though it had never belonged to anyone

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else so if you're a well-intentioned technician out there you're probably

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looking at this going well gee that looks great that could make my life a

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lot more useful thanks for that lus but if you're a general consumer who had no

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idea that you could break into a Windows computer in a couple minutes with a $20

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dude D that you can buy online I can see how this would be a little scary and

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what I'm about to say probably won't make you feel much better this is not

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the only way to break into a Windows computer it's actually quite easy this

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just makes it accessible enough that anyone can do it even with no dinking

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around in the registry or the command prompt so the next question people are

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bound to ask is how do I protect myself against this cuz even if you did put a

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password on that built-in administrator account well I can strip it off in

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seconds and the answer is there are a few ways so full dis encryption using

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bit Locker within Windows is one of those ways it can detect the volume but

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it can't read any of the files off of it and you can also buy ssds or hard drives

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that feature self- encryption so you have to enter a password right when you

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turn on the computer in the first place in order to unlock the encryption on

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that drive if your computer doesn't have a trusted platform module or you're

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trying to keep your files safe without going and buying a new drive though

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there are other options there too so Luke has a video which you can check out

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over here on programs that you can install within Windows to create

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encrypted containers for your files that even if someone used a PRK ripped that

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file off the computer they would need the key in order to open so thanks for

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watching guys if you dislike this video go ahead and hit that dislike button but if you liked it hit the like button get

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