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It is chilling—but is it true? My immediate reaction when reading that paragraph was that someone as security-minded as Aaron would probably not leave his pass
by cwb71 13y ago
It is chilling—but is it true?
My immediate reaction when reading that paragraph was that someone as security-minded as Aaron would probably not leave his password saved in a Skype client.
- breakyerself 13y agoIsn't that safer than typing it every time? A key logger could get it then. Has anyone ever extracted a password stored in a client like that?
- eli 13y agoI don't know anything about Skype but yes, people have definitely extracted passwords saved in IM clients like that.
- jeffasinger 13y agoThere's no way he would have set things up to go from boot to skype without at least one password.
- billybob255 13y agoThere's the possibility that the person knew the password to log into his computer and Skype was a startup program.
- byerley 13y agoThere's a difference between being security-minded and being a crypto-nut. If you're proud of the work you're doing and it's not secretive, why bother encrypting the hard-drive? Similarly, he wouldn't have been caught in the first place if he had been security-nutty about the process, but he didn't think he was doing anything immoral.