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Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-11-09

A trio of entrepreneurial hackers hope to do for the business of password cracking what Google did for search and, in the process, may remove the last vestiges of security from many password systems.

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Gold at the end of rainbow cracking? 2005-11-11
Anonymous
The main idea of it, Mike, I think is leveraging a lower exploit, gaining the information (local passwords) and then further imbedding yourself in the network...

Penetration testers have been doing this for ages with WiFi as the initial attack vector, or an open workstation....

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