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  1. And grub4dos if you wanna multiboot. I've managed to get everything I use on one usb drive. Verry nice instead of having to carry around a case of CDs or mutliple usb drives.

  2. You could just use a mac, Kon-Boot doesn't work on Mac OS X. Although the thief can still get your data.

    Or W7. The site said its been tested but I don't know.... I keep getting bluescreens :|

  3. Believe it or not not everyone watching the show probably knew about TC. They haft to cover a huge user base. Not everything they cover is going to be new to everyone all the time.

  4. Error 17 typically means you're simply pointing to the wrong disk/partition. Grub offers edit facilities at boot time to help you figure out the right parameters and you can edit once you're in for future booting at /boot/grub/menu.lst. It doesnt mean your systems crashed.

    I'd haft to agree though. VMs make it easy. I just got VBox today to start playing around though I've had a physical machine up in the past. It just makes everything easier. No worrying about configuring drivers, but learning your stuff.

  5. IMHO, you can't go wrong with getting A+ and Net+ certified. Neither represent a significant time drain, and you'll get your feet lightly wet in all aspects of PC's and Networking respectively.

    Good to give you the big picture and fill in any gaps your independent study may have left, and at the end of the process you have two marketable certs under your belt.

    Half the networking terms referenced on the show I wasnt familar with prior to my certs. The studying is good, even if you don't fully understand it at first. The idea is to become familar, so that you can even gain an interest.

  6. You usually learn by picking topics that are most interesting to you and dedicating the time to sit down to research them. As you acquire more knowledge, you'll understand concepts at at least a overview and develop an interest for more technical topics as you go along. If you are serious about your studies or want to turn it into a career you'll take the knowledge and experience you acquire over time to go after certifications that'll help potential employers identify you for what you know.

  7. Again, it doesnt work on disabled accounts. It well work on domain accounts, but only if done on the server, since you must patch the machine hosting the profile you wish to use.

  8. It only exploits the current machine, so yes local accounts only. You also cant use it to login to disabled accounts like administrator if the domain admins were smart enough to disable or rename it.

  9. Man the character thing gets me every time.

    For linux only or grub users who boot the system from a linux system partition, use a common linux/unix file in the etc folder found on most distributions for example as the marker file for locating the correct root:

    title Boot grldr from linux partition

    map --unhook

    map (hd1) (hd0)

    map --hook

    find --set-root /etc/password

    chainloader /grldr

    For all this to work you should be using the newest version of grub4dos available. I was trying all the above with an older version from two years ago and had a hell of a day trying to figure out why it wasn't working.

  10. Ok, it involves using the floppy image and grub4dos map command, example:

    title Kon-boot

    find --set-root /konboot.img

    map --mem /konboot.img (fd0)

    map --hook

    chainloader (fd0)+1

    rootnoverify (fd0)

    Now after kon-boots done, you'll be returned back to the menu of your usb drive, so you need to create entries that'll fix this to boot Windows on the internal drive.

    For XP only box, use the ntldr entry:

    title Boot ntldr from hard drive

    map --unhook

    map (hd1) (hd0)

    map --hook

    find --set-root /boot.ini

    chainloader /ntldr

    For boxes later than XP or dual-booted with XP, use:

    title Boot bootmgr from hard drive

    map --unhook

    map (hd1) (hd0)

    map --hook

    find --set-root /boot/bcd

    chainloader /bootmgr

    If you use grub as your main loader, you'll need to find another way to identify the correct place since you've got grldr on your flash drive.

    Here's a grldr example that locates the partition with ntldr/bootmgr if grub for the systems on a windows partition:

    title Boot grldr from Windows partition

    map --unhook

    map (hd1) (hd0)

    map --hook

    find --set-root /ntldr (OR bootmgr)

    chainloader /grldr

  11. Am I wrong to say that there is no Rainbow Table that contains every possible WPA Passphrase?

    What's rainbow tables got to do with this topic? Konboot doesn't need any. Anyway, To answer your question I don't know. I think you're correct. If there is such a set and it would need to be a set (i don't think you could compute a single table with that amount), it sure as heck isn't available on the net. A full table if it does exist would take the capacity of several TBs of data, and take more than several lifetimes to produce probably.

    To add to my previous post I have successfully got konboot working with grub4dos on a usb drive. Its a little tricky when you're trying to use it on an XP box, but its possible. And don't try using unetbootin for it cause it doesn't work. If anyone else is having trouble with it I'll probably post the steps I went through to get it working sometime.

  12. Hmm.. sorry for the double post but it seems I ran out of room on character restriction.

    I just got done testing the drive I made with unetbootin. It works, but it doesnt boot the system drive. It goes on to try to boot from the usb drive again, so I guess its a no for multiple hard drives. Maybe I would have better luck with the floppy image? Anyone that's got it to work on a ufd and been able to boot Windows say how you did it. I'll keep playing around with it cause I want to have it on utility ufd alongside the other programs I use if possible.

    Anyway, looking forward to tuesday and the next ep.

  13. Ok, the download was good. They're using a filesystem Windows doesn't recognize apparently, so I ovb. won't be able to see any files from Windows explorer. I've tested it and it works beautifully, not on W7 (it bluescreens) but just fine for XP/Vista. Why its not working for W7 I don't know though their site says it does. I suspect I got a bad install anyway.

    As to answer my own questions...

    While i'm posting this I've actually got a few questions about Kon-boot that someone may already know so asking them before I dive into it. Those being:

    - I looked over the instructions on the site. I noticed you had to use "kon-usr" to login to the linux box but you also had to re-login when you're done with "kon-fix" to repair changes made to the kernel. Is there anything you need to do on the Windows side of things to fix changes made or are they only there while the machine's powered on so its safe to assume taking out the cd and powering down the machine that the next user to use it must enter a password?

    - Can kon-boot work correctly when multiple hard drives are present or the machine is dual-booted?

    1) No, just reboot the machine without booting konboot

    2) Yes, i've got XP/Vista/W7 all on the same laptop. What it does it loads kon-boot and than gives you the usual bootloader OS selection screen.

  14. Hey Shannon, which version of konboot did you get? I think you said you got the iso but theres multiple versions posted there. I've downloaded the floppy and iso images now. The iso image I can't even view the contents of with it mounted. It appears much smaller in size than the floppy image so I'm thinking its bad. I'm installed both images onto a flash drive with unetbootin but niether are showing any files inside.

  15. Will allow access to a system using Windows EFS (encrypted file system)?

    Yes it well. EFS protects files, not the system they're housed on. If you're wanting a full disk encryption solution from MS that would be bitlocker, which you can get with the business or ultimate editions of Vista and W7.

    While i'm posting this I've actually got a few questions about Kon-boot that someone may already know so asking them before I dive into it. Those being:

    - I looked over the instructions on the site. I noticed you had to use "kon-usr" to login to the linux box but you also had to re-login when you're done with "kon-fix" to repair changes made to the kernel. Is there anything you need to do on the Windows side of things to fix changes made or are they only there while the machine's powered on so its safe to assume taking out the cd and powering down the machine that the next user to use it must enter a password?

    - Can kon-boot work correctly when multiple hard drives are present or the machine is dual-booted?

  16. Report it to the proper authorities. Law enforcement should be able to get the information they need to trace the subject from facebook if case need be. Stop trying to be the officer and let them do thier job.

  17. How about Sony Vegas -- isn't that what Darren/Paul use to put Hak5 together?

    They used to use Vegas, but now they use Adobe too. I use Vegas. I can't speak for everyone but its more than fine for personal projects or tutorials you want to post up on the net. Get yourself the platinum version and you can do HD if you've got an HD camera. For ~130$ it can do just about everything you'd want and if you don't want to pirate software its perfect compared to paying $300+ for Adobe.

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