Password Recovery from stolen hard drive

[accessys at smart.net]

my condolences.

unfortunately most thefts are for resale and will just wipe the harddrive 
and load some old pirated copy of windows.

Bob

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 p.echols at comcast.net wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:23:05 +0000 (UTC)
> From: p.echols at comcast.net
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> To: ubuntu-users-bounces <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Password Recovery from stolen hard drive
> 
> Last night my laptop was stolen.  Is it possible for an attacker, having possession of the hard drive, to determine my login password?
>
> How about stored in Thunderbird for email login?  Browser cache and / or firefox saved passwords?
>
> Thanks!
>
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