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Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

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[–] yuriy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe even as far as XP and maybe 7 you could just make a new user account with admin privileges by creating it through command prompt and changing a single flag. I used this to get unfettered access to the remote hard drive server in high school and stole other people’s homework.

It’s no wonder I ended up going the GED route lmao

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but getting to the cmd, you have to replace C:/windows/system32/utilman.exe with cmd.exe on 7+.

[–] yuriy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I believe I wrote all the commands sequentially in a batch file because some well intentioned IT person blocked access to cmd, but had no restrictions for creating/executing .bat