Calling yourself "dildog" is pretty fucking cool.
I don't get it. Dill pickle dog?
Dildo G
L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You've surely heard about Tor, socks proxies, VPNs, SSH tunnels.
If I am online, I assume some entity somewhere can maliciously access what I am doing. My goal is to secure it enough so that entity has to be a state actor. Tor is not a silver bullet, even if used properly, because anyone (including state actors) can stand up a Tor node: https://nusenu.medium.com/tracking-one-year-of-malicious-tor...
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#133Shame what happened to Terrahash (previous owner of L0phtCrack). As someone who has purchased several Brutalis cracking rigs, those things were the most badass machines on the market. Looks like they sold and committed to a bunch of cracking rigs before sourcing enough GPUs right before prices skyrocketed, and were suddenly on the hook for a lot more than they could realistically pay for. Hopefully Jeremi manages to…
Wow, that is an extraordinary letter. A real case study in communication with customers.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree they should have a description in the readme, as a courtesy if nothing else. 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.
What do you mean by "that's really on you"? I'd normally interpret it as something like... "this is a state of affairs that would be different if you'd acted differently, and you knew or could have been able to know this in advance". Along those lines, anyway. But not having heard about a tool doesn't really seem to fit that.
>What do you mean by "that's really on you"?
At some point, a tool is so ubiquitous that it's just odd to not have encountered it. You don't see many accountants that haven't heard of Excel, webdevs that haven't heard of Apache, construction workers that haven't heard of a hammer, or cybersec workers who haven't heard of L0phtCrack.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree they should have a description in the readme, as a courtesy if nothing else. 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.
What do you mean by "that's really on you"? I'd normally interpret it as something like... "this is a state of affairs that would be different if you'd acted differently, and you knew or could have been able to know this in advance". Along those lines, anyway. But not having heard about a tool doesn't really seem to fit that.
It means it's their fault because they clearly were not paying attention or their memory has failed them.
L0phtCrack has been decreasingly relevant in the past 10 years or so -- it wasn't available for awhile and some free tools are similar so you were basically buying the rainbow tables -- but if you were in security in the Windows 2000 or Windows XP era, you know of this tool. There was a lot of discussion for years around and about password crackers after rainbow tables became a thing.
It's not like not knowing what Wireshark or nmap is, but it is like saying that you've never even heard of Kismet or John the Ripper. Or like being a DBA for decades that never heard of Informix. Or a programmer for "decades" that has never even heard of Delphi. Like what were you doing in the early 2000s to have completely missed the death of Borland and Pascal and the popular variants? These are big enough events in the industry that if you're in it you're going to be aware of it.
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#136> L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables. - Wikipedia
So it's a hash cracking tool? How does it compare to Hashcat? Any notable distinguishing features?
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You've surely heard about Tor, socks proxies, VPNs, SSH tunnels.
Tor is very slow, and VPNs will rat you out immediately.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm 28 ... adjunct professor ... We talk about this still. 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.
> Counterpoint: _Sneakers_: the thinking person's hacking movie. Lacks the soundtrack. I always work to music to help focus.
Lacks? No way. Sneakers' score features Branford Marsalis, which is very different feel to Hackers (which is also great), but imo very evocative of the the playfulness, mystery, & intrigue of the crypto storyline.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Counterpoint: _Sneakers_: the thinking person's hacking movie. Lacks the soundtrack. I always work to music to help focus.
Lacks? No way. Sneakers' score features Branford Marsalis, which is very different feel to Hackers (which is also great), but imo very evocative of the the playfulness, mystery, & intrigue of the crypto storyline.
Both have good soundtracks, but Hackers is still better. ;-)