Bad Windows

i never thought the day would come that i, one of the least security-conscious people in the world, would report a Windows security flaw. The fact is – Windows Vista appears to try multiple variants of a password if the first one doesn’t match, at least when it is configured to use multiple keyboard layouts.

Here are the facts:

i have, on a newly-bought PC, a copy of Vista. It doesn’t do much except run Starwars Battlefront (it refuses to connect to my wireless network, even though my mobile phone, my Wii, and 3 other computers will, which means it’s just a brick which happens to run Starwars Battlefront). My keyboard is set up to switch between German and English (it’s a German Vista, but i type using a U.S. keyboard layout).

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