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Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards
An anonymous reader writes "ElcomSoft accelerates the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and password-protected iPhone and iPod backups by using ATI video cards. The support of ATI Radeon 5000 series video accelerators allows ElcomSoft to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core CPUs, and up to two times faster compared to enterprise-level NVIDIA Tesla solutions. Benchmarks performed by ElcomSoft demonstrate that ATI Radeon HD5970 accelerated password recovery works up to 20 times faster than Core i7-960, Intel's current top of the line CPU unit."
It all depends on your point of view.
One man's "password recovery" is another man's "password cracking".
Just like the same person being a "freedom fighter" and "terrorist/insurgent" at the same time.
It all depends on your point of view.
I don't know if that's entirely fair. I've cracked at least a half dozen passwords, for entirely benign reasons.
The ones I've done for fun, I can't even begin to count, LMAO
Nefarious? Well now - let's get ex-president Bill Clinton in this discussion, so we can obfuscate the meaning of "nefarious", along with "sex" and "is". ;^)
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