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Comments · 6
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Re:what's wrong with T1me Out
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Done before, and ten times better
This has been done before, and with over twice the size:
http://us.md5.crysm.net/stats
Has 32,106,390 entries.
The New Zealand mirror has some 25 million entries or so.
Small fry.
There are also explanations on there of how to avoid this sort of attack, by use of proper salt, and md5(pass + md5(pass)), all the usual improvements.
http://saf.crysm.net/ -
Done before, and ten times better
This has been done before, and with over twice the size:
http://us.md5.crysm.net/stats
Has 32,106,390 entries.
The New Zealand mirror has some 25 million entries or so.
Small fry.
There are also explanations on there of how to avoid this sort of attack, by use of proper salt, and md5(pass + md5(pass)), all the usual improvements.
http://saf.crysm.net/ -
Re:Are the passwords saved as plain text?
You could use some script that checks against some revers lookup databases (e.g. http://us.md5.crysm.net/). So you will not get all but some (if not the most) passwords in no time.
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-1, Troll
I forgot to mention, if MS says it, people will do it.
When the installer says you should have IE, OE, Msgr, WMP, YATLA, ETC, etc they will install it and will never hear about any competitors. Will anyone who has WMP go searching for a media player? No, because they already have one that does the job (to some degree of success).
Want to try this out? Want to see how automated Windows users are?
Here's how
Stand near someone using a computer. When a dialog comes up and they dismiss it ask them what the dialog said.
I'll bet they just slammed space or enter as soon as it appeared and chose the default option and won't have a clue what was asked.
Would you like to install Inter
Do you really want t... YES!
Remove th... NO!
Kiss the ring o... YES!
Mindless automat... YES!
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Re:And this is supposed to work over a modem how?
Do what the adverts on MSN Messenger do: download the advert completely before displaying the advert.
Messenger has a placeholder advert (it says: "MSN Messenger Service") which it displays until it has downloaded the next advert.