Do you have a password on your PC ?

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Snow-Munki

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Just wondering who has a password on their PC, be it a BIOS pwd, login accounts or using some sort of encryption ?

At the moment all our pc's don't have anything :p
 
Yes. Need it for automatic logon (I think) and it makes Remote Desktop easier. Just a Windows account password. Probably a couple of other reasons too but they elude me at present..
 
Don't have a password on my PC or notebook. My notebook has biometrics like Draegers, but I couldn't be bothered to install the drivers and software for it when I did a clean install so it goes unused!
 
I password all my PC's with a strong encryption passphrase (actually have a domain controller set up with roaming profiles so I can log into any PC in my house with the same details). At least 13 characters letters numbers upper and lower case. Something like 0v3rCl0ck3r5rul35 (not that obviously). Passphrases make it easy to remember but quite hard to break. I have the server set to change it once a month for me and all my family, my family have very limited accounts, they cannot install anything and can only save to their own home area. I also have an encrypted drive on my main PC where all my important personal data is stored. I encrypt my pendrives also.
 
Zaphrod said:
I password all my PC's with a strong encryption passphrase (actually have a domain controller set up with roaming profiles so I can log into any PC in my house with the same details). At least 13 characters letters numbers upper and lower case. Something like 0v3rCl0ck3r5rul35 (not that obviously). Passphrases make it easy to remember but quite hard to break. I have the server set to change it once a month for me and all my family, my family have very limited accounts, they cannot install anything and can only save to their own home area. I also have an encrypted drive on my main PC where all my important personal data is stored. I encrypt my pendrives also.
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i also do none of the above
 
Zaphrod said:
I password all my PC's with a strong encryption passphrase (actually have a domain controller set up with roaming profiles so I can log into any PC in my house with the same details). At least 13 characters letters numbers upper and lower case. Something like 0v3rCl0ck3r5rul35 (not that obviously). Passphrases make it easy to remember but quite hard to break. I have the server set to change it once a month for me and all my family, my family have very limited accounts, they cannot install anything and can only save to their own home area. I also have an encrypted drive on my main PC where all my important personal data is stored. I encrypt my pendrives also.
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Paranoid Much?
 
Do I keep my front door locked? Of course. :p

Password on all accounts.

Full disk encryption on partitions containing sensitive stuff. ( LUKS )

and :

UAC

Standard user. Fast User Switching for admin stuff.

Software Restriction Policy. If it's not in \Program Files or \Windows, it's not executing. It was a bit silly until an exception was made for .lnk :p

Firefox runs with low integrity.. as another user. No read / write / execute access to any of my regular user's directories.
 
Kobrakai said:
Paranoid Much?
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No, just prepared. I have had a laptop stolen and I know they got none of my data off it as the whole drive was encrypted. Might me overkill for the Desktop but better safe than sorry.

miniyazz said:
You dictator you :p
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Maybe but my wife has only just started using computers so don't want her screwing things up and my son is 4 years old and smarter than he should be.
 
I do on the netbook and laptop because they get taken to college etc and it's convenient to lock them and know nobody else can access data whilst I'm not there.

Main machine at home doesn't, but all the accounts are limited apart from one admin account, which does have a password.
 
Nah. It'd be a hell of a job if someone wanted to steal my desktop. I should put one on my laptop really, but I CBA with it.

Besides, if someone's gonna break into my house to steal the data off my computer, they're probably computer literate enough to be able to just remove my storage HDD and put it in another computer.
 
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