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Thanks Rollo

for Errol

http://www.darkreading.com/cloud/microsoft-windows-10-three-security-features-to-know-about/d/d-id/1320650

Thank you both, have given all that to OH. who at the moment is bewailing the fact that he has lost the connection to the Tom tom set up.


He has also had a problem making W10 accept his second e mail address. We both have two, the google one was accepted but Blueyonder not.

You won't be turning the password off as such, merely bypassing it - if that makes sense

passwords have become very weak security which is why all serious terminals use at least a keyboard with a slot for a security card. This is fairly foolproof unless the user leaves their card in the slot.

Passwords can be logged by keyloggers and hidden cameras. They can serve a role in a small office or at home to keep the digitally challenged from rooting around. For the most part though they are false security just like Yale keys.

Moving the internet of ip4 and onto ip6 would help no end with improving internet security. Trouble is the hackers at GCHQ etc would be badly put out which I guess is why ISPs are not rolling it out even if their routers are ip6 capable. Businesses often have the option and should use it.

"resistance is futile"

I am referring to the fact that if you turn off that facility, anyone can physically access your computer so it would be less secure (as well as other security implications). You should always really password protect your computer.

netplwiz is a little programme for managing user accounts, passwords etc

Right, OH might understand you both but Rollo, what does typing netplwiz actually activate? Is this to do with turning off the password please.


Errol "You can turn that off if nobody else uses the computer although it lessens security of course" Not sure what you are referring to here, sorry.

When you do as Rollo correctly says above, click on your account and I think you can remove the tick next to something about users having to enter a password - will double check when I am on a Win 10 machine later.

You can turn that off if nobody else uses the computer although it lessens security of course

Start menu window,
right click at the Win logo
select Run option
in the Run box type netplwiz
OK
follow the prompts.
Restart Win 10.

Sooner or later a software contractor at UKJGov is going to invoke the wrong routine and delete the digital identity of most of the population ... can't happen ? A US contractor has already managed to leak the whole US Fed employee database by accident ( sounds better than "hacked" ).

UK and other digital IDs / logins / credit card / NHS / DVLC details are hawked around the internet for anything from a few dollars to quite a lot. All of the more serious immigrants take advantage and fly into Heathrow 1st class rather than mucking about at Calais. The Border Agency are like the Keystone Cops trying to catch Goldfinger.

Getting back to Windows 10 it is meaner and leaner and has better security than what went before but then so it has always been with new Windows releases. What bothers me are the many entry points for Microsoft to "monitor" the system not to mention Homeland Security, CIA, NSA and GCHQ. The likes of Russian organised crime, the Chinese Army, Desh, Savak, Mossad and so on are deemed too thick to work out how to hijack these entry points and use them for their own ends.

All in all closed code is one of those really bad ideas which one day will bite hard and everybody will wonder at the stupidity of it all.

Shudders.

When we log in our current computers we don't have to input a password. Now that OH has upgraded he always has to input a password when he logs in.

Do you mean disable the screen where you log in?

To return to the original subject :-D

Is there any way that once upgraded you can do away with having a password required?

It could be argued that I do not necessarily need the mafia for that !

if you are driving a decent motor (a) it won't have any keys and (b) the Russian mafia, Serbs et al will already have yr details. You are about to become a none person with no ID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SFeCgoep1c

Can't I just give them my full bank details, date of birth, mother's maiden name etc?

Oh, and the keys to my car.

absolutely, have yr credit card ready

https://goo.gl/t79HVx

It must be some sort of company policy

yeah, they employ people with odd sounding names such as Satya Narayana Nadella, what do you expect ?