Re: Securing workstations from IT guys

["Mark Owen" <mr.markowen () gmail com>]

On Nov 27, 2007 3:05 PM, Liam Jewell <ljjewell () gmail com> wrote:
> Anybody who has physical access to the machine becomes a
> vulnerability.  Even if you encrypt files under an administrator
> account on the local machine, simply resetting the password with a
> program like Passware, will not disable the encryption.  Then an
> unauthorized user can log in to the admin account with a blank
> password (or a password of their choosing) and have access to all
> encrypted files.

This is not entirely true.  If you reset or delete the password for an
account then that account will no longer be able to decrypt the files.
-- 
Mark Owen