My laptop was stolen as well as we am wondering if they can get past the cue shade but cue as well as be means to entrance my papers as well as cinema or do they have to reset all report to make use of laptop. It was the sony vaio with windows vista
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Yes. It is possible to remove the password on bootup, from both the BIOS and Windows. The BIOS may require some time or special tools, but I could remove Vista’s with my eyes closed.
Yes.
If you do not use a BIOS password and/or use encryption on your harddrive such as PGP whole disk encryption then someone can very easily boot the computer to either a linux disk (like Knoppix live cd) or to a Password Cracking suite like Ophcrack.
They could even simply pop out the harddrive and use imaging software to make a forensic image and then carve out any data they wanted from it..
Good Luck
cracking a password depends on the type. if it is an easy password, any password hacking tool with dictionary can get through it but passwords with more complicated digits take longer. but at the end, nothing stops a determined hacker.