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The bootlock thing is easy to overcome. I had to fix a neighbour who got scammed. It is a password on the Windows registry not actually the boot but it needs to open the registry to boot.

Windows backs up the registry. Just boot from a WindowsPE or live Linux USB and delete the live versions and replace with the backups. Reboot and lock is gone.



While true, he was paranoid enough after having been gotten that he wanted his entire machine blown away and restored what he needed from backups.

It still to this day boggles my mind that he fell for it in the first place, when he handles such sensitive information.


People are specialists in their own fields, at the cost of larger values of "everything else" than we expect.

I've found that the mental model of focus is the epitome of unintuitivity (why does googling this this word only return 72 results?!).

Kind of skirts at the edges of the uncanny valley, almost....




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