I see some fundimental problems with using a USB flash drive as the sole authentication medium... they have a known finite life-span. So if the flsh drive fails, as it will... you become locked out of you own computer... unless a backdoor method of access is provided, which then defeats its purpose. Aren't CD's and USB flash drives simple to clone? Where's ther security with that if your secure access medium can be cloned by anyone that can get physical access to it. I presume Safe mode startup is protected to as well as total drive encryption is used on the target computers to prevent offline access to the sensitive data?

TK  –  13 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+77)

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At first - sorry for my bad english ;-)
I want answer some questions from this board.

1)
abylon LOGON is just a part of your computer security and not a tool to encrypt your files. It should protect you e.g. from KeyLoggers.
It is faster and easier to logon and you can randomize your password each day.
You can use very long and difficult passwords, because, you do not have to enter it any time.

2)
abylon LOGON can be used togehter with X.509-Certificates (e.g. on SmartCards) - this smartcards could not be copy or cloned.
If you use a usb-stick, you could not clone or copy it to logon.

3)
biometrie is just one solution. Other don't want biometrie - they want to use SmardCards or cheap USB-Sticks.

4)
You should use the stick like a normal key. If you lose it, you can logon with a SecureID (manually). But if an other person take your stick, he can use it to logon. For this case, you can add a Password for higher protection.

5)
We don't write anything to windows-directory. We just create here a INI-File. INI-Files should save to the windows-directory (see Microsoft Dokumentation). This is just ONE SMALL FILE.

6)
Windows7 - we wrote on this homepage, that this version (7.x) is not for Windows7!!! If you want to use it on Windows7, you must download the version 8.x.

7)
Some other problems can sometimes happend, if you have a virus-protection on your system.

8)
I hope, that some other give us suggestions or help to make abylon LOGON better.

I hope, that my anser can help a little bit - and sorry for this english.

best regards - aby

Aby  –  13 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+47)

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http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/predator/predator.html

looks better to me Furthermore, Predator frequently changes the security codes recorded on your USB drive, so even if an intruder manages to copy your stick, this copy will not work because the codes on your own stick will have changed in the meantime.

hotdoge3  –  13 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+43)

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I have to use a smartcard to login and use a different software to do so, so I will bypass today's giveaway.

I will comment that using a smartcard, if you have one, is preferable to a password, but there is also hardware that has to be installed as well.

I don't see how many users of GAOTD can take full advantage of an offering such as this.

Dan  –  13 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+33)

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If I insert a live Linux CD how is the Windows data protected from being read or copied?

A Question  –  13 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+32)

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