Great job. The book is 427 pages. Why not put the video on YouTube?
Are you drunk? He’s lucky Google and Amazon haven’t noticed yet. If he wants to keep access to his accounts he should pull them down immediately and distribute via torrent.
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#12when i was running 150k amd gpus... i really wanted to use the cluster to run hashcat to help people recover lost things. i couldn't convince management that that was a profitable business to run.
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#13Great job. The book is 427 pages. Why not put the video on YouTube?
Are you drunk? He’s lucky Google and Amazon haven’t noticed yet. If he wants to keep access to his accounts he should pull them down immediately and distribute via torrent.
Why? Don't they both sell other books on cracking and pentesting and whatever? There are tons of videos on YouTube about hashcat and aircrack-ng and rainbow tables and blah blah blah.
You think this stuff is some kind of secret or illicit knowledge?
The video is just less than half a minute of him flipping through some pages in the book anyway.
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#14Thanks for sharing. This looks interesting. Impressive achievement. This book is currently not really relevant for me, so I just skimmed the samples on Amazon. I found the technical content to be reasonably accurate and interesting although sometimes a little bit verbose (e.g., the section about 'what is a password') or slightly imprecise. In general, I think this book might have benefited from a thorough copyediting…
What did you find slightly imprecise?
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#15Congratulations! The book looks great. I would love to hear more about the process of writing and preparing it for publishing. It's self-published? How did you do the typesetting and the diagrams?
I too would be interested in hearing about the writing and formatting process. I described my own process as a software engineer and first-time novelist here:
https://frequal.com/forwriters/
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#16relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_LastPass_data_breach
probably a lot of ppl lost crypto this way.
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#17There’s a reason there are no books about this, because most people are not interested in cracking local/offline passwords. In fact, the people most interested in password cracking are usually criminals. But good luck with the book. It’s just not a hugely in demand topic.
Uh, what?
I'd say that this is a bit relevant to the entire field of cyber security and a good chunk of development roles. If you're not concerned about how password hashing (which is a key component of understanding cracking) works as developer-- I'm not sure what to say. While not all of the in-depth research is probably needed. It's definitely relevant to many technical fields. I work in offensive security and we use tools like this daily in our industry. And no we are not cyber criminals.
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#18Great job. The book is 427 pages. Why not put the video on YouTube?
Are you drunk? He’s lucky Google and Amazon haven’t noticed yet. If he wants to keep access to his accounts he should pull them down immediately and distribute via torrent.
Because of a Hashcat tutorial book and video?
Even Claude will help you setup hashcat and co without complaining?
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#19relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_LastPass_data_breach probably a lot of ppl lost crypto this way.
I don't think so. Every lastpass vault is encrypted by the users password.
Wikipedia states that there were some field unencrypted, sure, but not the critical data.
More people probably lost crypto by forgetting their passwords like a friend of mine. 10k gone
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#20when i was running 150k amd gpus... i really wanted to use the cluster to run hashcat to help people recover lost things. i couldn't convince management that that was a profitable business to run.
> help people recover lost things
You mean "lost things" in quotes. Management may have been more concerned about jail time.