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Discussion in 'TechSpot News and Comments' started by Matthew, Dec 13, 2012.

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  1. jobeard TS Ambassador Posts: 12,211   +119

    LNCPapa Thank you - - Techspot has jealously avoided all forms of hacking and this stance gives great credibility to the site IMO. For those that have not seen the history of this issue, I'll summarize the issue:

    When even the owner of the machine makes the plea for "help, I lost my password", those contributing to this site have no means to verify that the poster is "in fact" the owner of the affected machine. A great many realities could just as easily be lurking under that request, eg: parental control.

    In addition, causal browsing and searching the site would disclose far too much for the World Wide Web to snatch up. If other sites post such concepts and techniques - - well the end result lies with their choice.

    The consensus has been to not discuss or post links to tools or techniques which circumvent system security/privacy.
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  2. treetops TechSpot Evangelist Posts: 1,385   +12

    Yeah that is the first time I have mentioned that little method, if you want to delete it as well go ahead, not that you need my approval :) . Its not specific but when I first posted it I was wondering if I should have even said anything. I guess it doesn't matter you can probably google your way to anything you want nowadays.