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For our first ethical hacking video, we're going to do something really practical, hands on, we're

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going to see how to hack a Windows computer and add an administrative account with just two special

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key combinations to reboots and four commands at the command prompt.

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So let's take a look at a real world example where this would be useful.

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Have you ever gotten an old laptop or a desktop and wanted to use it without installing a whole new

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operating system?

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So your uncle or a family member or you buy it on eBay wherever you get it, you get a brand new computer

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or a used computer like this one, but you don't know the administrator password.

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You don't know any information about what's on the computer or with a Windows box.

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We can do just a few things, a couple of reboots, a couple of key combinations and a few commands

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at the command prompt.

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And we can reset a user password or we can add administrative account.

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Or have you got an old computer like a family computer and you need to get pictures and documents off

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of it, but you can't remember the password.

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In my case, I have an old laptop here from the university and I don't remember the password I was using

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about five years ago when I had this machine.

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So it's a terrific computer to do an example with.

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We're going to see how to ethically hack a Windows box by getting a legal copy of Windows that we can

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burn to a DVD and create a boot disk.

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And then we're going to use two special keys to reboot and four terminal commands, four commands at

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the command line to reset the password or to create a new full administrative user.

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We're going to show that physical access is total access.

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If someone can touch your computer, they can own your computer.

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So this is a really good practical exercise for you to get some old files or get access to an old computer

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when you don't have a user account or don't remember the password.

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But it's also a really good example of why we don't leave our laptop around to let people access our

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desktop computers.

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That's why we have all of these other layers of security in place.

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So let's get started by seeing where to legally download windows so we can burn a DVD of our own.