Have you ever tried to log into a Windows computer for a few minutes and you finally realize that you forgot the password? The solution is called @stake LC4 (formerly L0phtCrack), however since Symantec stopped development of L0phtcrack, I’m going to let you in on a program called LC5.

Windows XP sales will, in other words, be nearly 50% higher in the next 12 months than Microsoft had estimated earlier.

The Department of Defense and other organizations were found to be connecting into Windows Vista computers without authorization.

With thousands of extensions out there, your list may vary, but here’s my own selection of half a dozen essentials.

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve looks at Captcha and Re-Captcha – the pros and cons of trying to distinguish humans from robots, with a side look at Alan Turing and Jeff Hawkins’s On Intelligence.

For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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