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uh yeah I'm trying out this uh thumb drive that claims to let you unlock any
Windows-based PC in in just a couple
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so silliness aside this little thing right here is the password reset key too
the followup to the original password reset key that was kickstarted by jonty
lvll back in 2014 raising about 34,000
Great Britain pounds now they sent me the original one for consideration for
one of my handy Tech under 100 episodes about four months ago but I ended up
rejecting it due to its strange behavior in Windows 10 particularly around
Windows Live accounts versus local accounts however it turns out they were
already in the process of working on a follow-up that that's the one they've
sent me and that's the one that we'll be checking out today so with the password
reset key to they've dramatically improved the UI they've added Windows 10
support they've added Windows Live account detection though to be clear
password reset key cannot break through the password of a Windows Live account
and will simply redirect you to Microsoft's account recovery page and
they've added bit Locker encrypted volume detection although again it just
prompts you to enter your password or backup key if you want want to access
any of those files they haven't broken bit lockers encryption that would be
pretty big news so then what does it do
well in the time you've spent listening to me explain the limitations you've
pretty much witnessed the basic functionality I stripped the password
off of a computer that was just using a local Windows account but there's more
so by inserting the password reset key into any Windows PC and changing the
boot mode to Legacy instead of UEFI that's an important St please note you
will also have to disable some security features like secure boot for example
and then changing your boot device to the PRK you'll get dropped into this
menu which allows you to do a bunch of things really you can clone a local
account which allows you to then strip the password off of that cloned account
this is useful if you're a tech trying to get into a PC and you don't want the
customer to have to reset their password after the fact you can open up a
registry editor you can make changes to the PC using the command prompt you can
recover files from it either directly through a file explorer and then you can
just copy to or move to some other attached storage device or you can
actually recover deleted files from it and finally and this one's kind of scary
if you didn't know how easy it was to break into a Windows PC you can take the
local administrator account which is on every Windows 10 computer and you can
unlock and activate it which means as soon as you reboot pull out the PRK go
back into UEFI mode if applicable you will be landed on the Windows login
screen you'll be able to log into that account with no password required from
there you'll be able to do anything you want to the computer including deleting
the existing Windows Live account keeping all of that person's files and
even setting up new accounts using it as though it had never belonged to anyone
else so if you're a well-intentioned technician out there you're probably
looking at this going well gee that looks great that could make my life a
lot more useful thanks for that lus but if you're a general consumer who had no
idea that you could break into a Windows computer in a couple minutes with a $20
dude D that you can buy online I can see how this would be a little scary and
what I'm about to say probably won't make you feel much better this is not
the only way to break into a Windows computer it's actually quite easy this
just makes it accessible enough that anyone can do it even with no dinking
around in the registry or the command prompt so the next question people are
bound to ask is how do I protect myself against this cuz even if you did put a
password on that built-in administrator account well I can strip it off in
seconds and the answer is there are a few ways so full dis encryption using
bit Locker within Windows is one of those ways it can detect the volume but
it can't read any of the files off of it and you can also buy ssds or hard drives
that feature self- encryption so you have to enter a password right when you
turn on the computer in the first place in order to unlock the encryption on
that drive if your computer doesn't have a trusted platform module or you're
trying to keep your files safe without going and buying a new drive though
there are other options there too so Luke has a video which you can check out
over here on programs that you can install within Windows to create
encrypted containers for your files that even if someone used a PRK ripped that
file off the computer they would need the key in order to open so thanks for
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