Windows Portable???

[Bob Sneidar]

I believe U3 is a reference to a removable media system where simply by attaching it to the computing device, it would enable software on the U3 device to become dynamically installed in the OS, and when removed the software would be dynamically uninstalled, so to speak. 

Like any powerful tool, it can also be used for harm rather than good. I am not sure what the safeguards are. I know of a friend who has a USB device that when plugged into a computer silently downloads all the serial numbers and the passwords it can find on a Windows box. Later he can run software on the USB device to crack the Windows passwords (not a hard feat these days as MD5 has been quite crackable for some time). 

hth, Bob


On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Subtitled: "Naive Question 108".
> 
> Is 'U3' the same thing as Windows Portable?
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