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What are you talking about? I worked at a geek squad back in college days and no one there needed your admin password to get into your computer. We'd just remove the password. The only reason we asked for your password was so you'd get your computer back with the password still on it, lol...
I'm more shocked that none of the techs found the monitoring software and assumed it was something malicious and disabled or removed it...
Bitlocker? FileVault? If you're cracking those, why the fuck are you working at a Best Buy?
Bitlocker or Filevault for the pin/password to get onto your computer? I don't think that'll be a common scenario. I also imagine they bypass the whole password thing, rather than cracking the actual password.
Yup. A majority of the time people didn't have any of that setup anyway. But also most of windows security is centered around external attacks over a network, not someone actually having your computer so there are lots of ways to just remove the password if you can plug in a flash drive or insert a CD.
If someone actually security conscious brought in a computer truly locked down, we would have had a tough time of it, but people that know how to do that aren't bringing their computer to geek squad to be fixed, so it's a catch 22.
Yeah I had a buddy who bought a PC that had a BIOS password on it(which now I realize was probably stolen.. but it was like a big box store 2010 desktop which is weird to steal) I was surprised with how easy it was to bypass that, and gain access with a flash drive and 3 minutes of googling