Posted April 28, 201014 yr I have a tech who said he got a password used on a mesh (wireless) network browser interface. To access the mesh admin page you must use a web interface. This is the techs answer on how he did it... *******************************************************8 Our tech needed the pw to install the replacement antenna/switch (last week) at the building. My tech, Mike said retrieving the pw from the DVR hard drive isn’t a flaw in XP. He said he would not be able to ‘hack’ this remotely. But this could be done with any operating system if you have physical control of the PC (DVR). Since he had administrator access directly at the DVR, he was able to look at hard drive sectors where data resides even if ‘erased’. Unless a hard drive is wiped clean with a special program, all PCs retain some of the old data. This is where XP (and other operating systems) keeps ‘unlabelled’ deposits of files, and even data such as ‘browser’ keystroke text/ ascii strings. Since this was a fairly new DVR, very few keystrokes were present. He looked for ‘return’, ‘enter’, ‘accept, other terminology / coding which is usually associated with entering passwords. Took him about 2 hours to find the information. **************************************************** Ok, is this a true statement? Does IE leave keystrokes, passwords and such behind on the hard drive where someone can get to the data and recover entries into web based pages.. If so, it this not a major problem? He did get the password correctly and this is how he said he did it. Has anyone heard of this?
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