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[ PRIVACY Forum ] How a "security ninja" cracked the password
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How a "security ninja" cracked the password guarding his most valued assets
http://j.mp/WCSB9p (ars technica)
"Jeremiah Grossman is widely considered to be one of the world's most
talented ethical hackers, but even his ninja-like prowess wasn't
enough to recover a forgotten password used to encrypt sensitive work
documents contained on his MacBook Pro. After fiddling with a freely
available password cracking program, the CTO of Whitehat Security soon
realized that its plodding speed-about one password guess per
second-meant it would likely take him decades of tries before he
arrived at the right one. That's when he called in the big guns ..."
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