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Postby Мастер » Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:48 am

LMAO at this one.

I make a habit of logging into my Windows computers as an unprivileged user. So I decided to go poking around the fonts, to see if I could use them in Linux. Well, at least in this particular version of Windows, the fonts seem to be kept in a place, C:\Windows\Fonts\. So how about if I cruise there? An empty folder. That can't be right. It isn't right; the folder is not empty, but full of files. More than 600 of them, in fact. But, as an unprivileged user, I do not have access to the font files. The system will access them for me when I need to do something that requires a font (i.e., almost everything I do on the computer).

Now, I know the administrator password on this computer. But supposed I didn't? How could I access those fonts, without permission? Simple. Run a DOS command window, and change to C:\Windows\Fonts\, and copy the files to someplace where I do have permission to access them.

Would that all hacking were this easy!
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