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I wonder what the reasoning for open sourcing it now. And why not from the get go instead of decades later. Licence choices are obviously up to the authors. But at this point it is more a museum relic than anything practical
This is the reason: > at this point it is more a museum relic than anything practical
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No. They seem to have been doing a few puff PR pieces recently. Can’t imagine anyone under 30 knows or cares about them. I guess their main claim to fame was being the first “hacker” group to do PR moderately well and transition into decent careers. Not really even an interesting footnote in history.
Human, I'm 28, been in InfoSec for ~10 years. Granted, I was lucky enough to be interested in and peruse this as a professional branch when I graduated college in 2016. I am also an adjunct professor at my local university, where I make it a salient point to remind my students of the history of hacking. We talk about this still. I also start every semester off with the opening scene of Hackers - the best hacking movi…
I'm a decade older, and am relieved to see this.
> Hackers - the best hacking movie ever made :)
Counterpoint: _Sneakers_: the thinking person's hacking movie.
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No. They seem to have been doing a few puff PR pieces recently. Can’t imagine anyone under 30 knows or cares about them. I guess their main claim to fame was being the first “hacker” group to do PR moderately well and transition into decent careers. Not really even an interesting footnote in history.
If you care about the history of the scene you'll know the name regardless of your age.
I'm a millionaire now though so shrug
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If yoU were a teenager at the right time, the L0pht, et al. were crUcial in nUdging the next decades of yoUr life. I'm sUre I'm not alone in having fond memories seeing this. :) PS: (2 decades since Boston madness!)
you're doing something neat with your Us but I, unfortunately, came of age after lots of the cool times were over. All the hackers got jobs in industry and it feels like if I poke anything that isn't hackthebox I'll either A. have the FBI up my ass immediately or worse, B. have created a record somewhere of having committed one felony or another that will appear at an appropriate time for someone else and inappropria…
[1] The Crumbling Tunnel:
http://phrack.org/issues/53/12.html
[2] Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit:
Nostalgia factor is kicking into high gear on this one, as I haven't thought of L0phtCrack since the early 2000s.
It's making me nostalgic for all of the old tools - what was another one, ``john''? Although that seems to have been modernised. https://www.openwall.com/john/
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It’s a widely known password auditing tool that’s been around for 24 years.
I have been following programming and technology for decades and I had never heard of it. Every project should have a concise (one or two sentence) description in the GitHub README and the website's homepage. Even the most well-known tools.
But L0phtCrack is a very well known tool. If you've never heard of it and have been following security stuff for decades, that's really on you.
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