, 2004-05-26
For the 70% of the population that will trade their computer password for a bar of chocolate, this one's for you.
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Pass the Chocolate
2004-06-01
Tommy Ward (2 replies)
Tommy Ward (2 replies)
It's not going to take a brute force password cracking program very long to guess a password like "beer", and no amount of encryption is going to protect your from that. (I think beer is number two right after "password".)
Average time to brute force crack a password is two weeks. If you start to argue that no smart system administrator you let a hacker probe the system for two weeks, I'd like to counter by saying that no smart administrator would have left MS SQL Server unpatched for SIX MONTHS allowing Slammer to be the huge problem that is was.
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