Slashdot Mirror
How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence
tabdelgawad writes "The Washington Post offers this writeup about how the U.S. Secret Service uses a Distributed Network Attack program to crack encryption on computers and drives seized as evidence. How can brute force still succeed with 256-bit encryption, you ask? Customized password dictionaries from the seized computer's email files and browser cache: People still use non-random passwords."
President Skroob: What's the combonation?
Col. Sandurz: 12345
President Skroob: That's amazing I have the same combonation on my luggage!
I tried viewing the WashingtonPost article in Firefox, and it did not render correctly. Then I tried viewing in IExplorer, and things were fine. (I'm running WinXP-SP2 with extra large fonts.) Did anyone else experience similarly?
>> from Sweden a couple of years ago. He had locked his (most common) 3-digit combo lock
Is there a number shortage in Sweden or what? Three digits seems kind of like... why bother?
http://request-header.info
These things still get modded as funny?
Well... he had some pretty nice luggage and I wanted him to be able to use it on his return trip.
OT side note: He owed me big for that, so when I dropped my boat motor bracket in the water at the dock the next day, he was the one that got to dive into the seaweed to retrieve it. To his credit, he did it without complaining.
Me = butterfingers,( Heh heh).
"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing - and it was everything that I thought it could be."
Israeli Secret Service to Prisoner: "He's not trying to throttle you. He's applying moderate physical pressure."
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)