Re: 13 tiny bytes to show the huge sillyness of our great common

[tpeland () TKUKOULU FI (Tero Pelander)]

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, bt398 wrote:

> Microsoft did it the other way. The function returns the uncrypted password
> to a buffer (... no comment).
>
> Indeed, this is not _big_ deal but if a user has access to your computer
> after you logged then he can easily retrieve your password.. And I am sure
> that a lot of people uses the same password for their mail and their
> windows password (so it is somewhat a security problem). I attached a small
> program that prompts the password of the user (you must have logged in
> first); this only work on Windows for Workgroup 3.11 and Windows 95
> (Windows 98 and Windows NT are not affected -hopefully-).
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NT (4.0 SP3+hotfixes) isn't affected, 98 is affected