password recovery

Often when a person posts a question like this the standard response is the one posted here by ThumbsUp2. However I have also seen many of the experts here openly explaining preocedures and providing links to free software to achieve password bypass.
In my view those of us who are genuinely employed or self employed within the IT support business will already have the necessary knowledge and access to the software to do this and would not need to ask how to do it, therefore anyone who asks is unlikely to have a genuine reason for doing so.
Mostly anyone who produces a product of any sort will do whatever is necessary to sell it through any media that will promote it, that might make the likes of you and me angry but in the end it comes down to apathy not hypocrisy, the fact is no one really cares as long as they are making a buck.

They are Members of TechRepublic but are not directly employed by TechRepublic.

Tech Republic is a Business and as such accepts advertising from most sources that are legal they do not accept advertising from organizations like Al Quada and they are not expected to.

However TR Peers or Members are members of the Public not directly related in any way to TR. The vast majority of them are IT professionals who work in the IT Industry and all are involved in Keeping things Secure and attempting to Protect Data that they are responsible for. Now if these Peers/Members take a Decision not to help with Password Questions on a [b]Public Forum[/b] that is their choice and they are entitled to that choice.

What the Company TR who makes a Web Space Available to those Peers/Members do has nothing at all to do with the decisions taken by those who participate at this Web Site and those Peers/ Members have no input into what TR or it's Parent Company CBS does which is as it should be.

There is no Hypocrisy at all involved here in any way shape of form and those who claim that there is are immediately suspect in the Peers/Members Eyes but not in the company who hosts the site. TR is a Community and as such they are entitled to do as they please when they please. Those who want to tell us what we can and can not do have no place int hat community and will have a very unpleasant experience if they chose to persists in their beliefs.

If you are unhappy with the decision that the Peers have taken on this issue feel free to contribute to the discussion located here.

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=248696&messageID=2392005

I'm sure that you will get exactly what you deserve. :D

But as an example of what those Members can and do do I will draw your attention to this scenario. A person joins the Military to get a free education and better themselves. They find that they end up working in IT on ICBM Guidance Systems.

When they leave the Military they are not expected to tell every Boy and his dog how to build a better ICBM Guidance System just because someone unknown asks so why should we as Professionals be forced into telling others how to do something that is at best Marginal and possibly down right Illegal just because someone unknown asks on a Public Forum?

Much more Importantly why do you think that we should tell things like this that may very well be Illegal in certain Jurisdictions in different parts of the World? I do not willingly help criminals in any way shape or form and questions like this are at best suspect, so why should I tell something to someone unknown to me?

Much more Importantly would you? Remember that the USA has now set a Precedent demanding that a person be extricated to their country to face trial for alleged crimes committed against the US from Foreign Soil. What is stopping other countries doing exactly the same thing when their Laws are broken?

Col 0:-)