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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...

 

 

 

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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.

 

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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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