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Hack Windows passwords using the Linux application chntpw

A friend of mine dared me to hack his Administrator account, so I did, in 30 seconds, and this is how I did it:You need a Live Linux (CD, DVD, USB, Diskette, who cares) and the application chntpwA bit of theory: Windows stores its local user accounts in the C:windowssystem32configSAM file. If you want to change ANYTHING that is related to the user accounts you do it from this file, but it is of course encrypted. Not a problem! While we can't read the file and see what password is already assigned to a user, we can sure as hell overwrite it.

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