“Every man-made security measure can and will be broken.” That’s my motto when I secure my car, my house, my belongings, my money, my computer, and – most importantly – my data. If God did not protect it, with enough time, it will be exploited.
Password-locked Laptop
A couple of weeks ago, my dad’s boss dug an old 2002 laptop out of his garage. It was a decent IBM ThinkPad with Windows XP. His only problem was that he did not remember the Administrator password. They went to various computer shops like Circuit City, Best Buy, and Goodwill Computer Works to get an estimate on the time and cost it would take to crack or just reset the master Windows password. To their dismay, the price quotes ran at least $50 and the required time would take at least 24 hours! My dad knew that I would be able to find a way to crack it in a short amount of time and at a cheaper cost. So, his boss hired me to do it instead.
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My college Calculus I class is a killer! I mean, it is tearing me apart, eating me alive! We were taking our midterm exam last week and it was really difficult. After I was finished with my test and left the classroom, I checked the messages on my cell phone. As I pressed “TALK,” I thought, “Crap! I left my ringer on again!” Imagine what would have happened if somebody called me in the middle of my test. My professor is known for dismissing students with an audible cell phone during a test and giving them an “egg shaped grade.” He even warned us that on our first day! I can not afford a bad grade on my transcript!
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Have you ever watched a free clip from Google Video and wanted to download it only to find out that Google only lets you download the clip in a proprietary unmanageable format? I have!
Robot Chicken
In fact, this happened to me a couple of days ago. I saw this hilarious political comedy sketch from the TV show Robot Chicken ([adult swim] network) on Google Video. I wanted to put that clip on my MySpace profile. But, I would need to obtain it as an AVI format first. There is no free way I know of to convert Google Video files so I had to find a loophole.
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