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WPA-PSK Cracking As a Service

An anonymous reader writes "Moxie Marlinspike, a security researcher well known for his SSL/TLS attacks, today launched a cloud-based WPA cracking service, where for $34 you can test the security of your WPA password. The WPA Cracker Web site states: 'WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks. WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes.'"

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  1. Re:One problem by FunkyRider · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why pay $35 dollars for cracking a wifi, while you can pay for and get your own mobile internet the legal way? Of course that money is sent to steal data.

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    just wonder why there are so many anonymous cowards in this world....