If there might be one (or more), but equally there might not, then you need to test all of those you mentioned plus ABCDEFG[A-Z].
I've spent zero time attempting to crack passwords, and I suspect/. is one of the last places to be if you want to learn how to. There's so many variables involved, it's not a simple problem, and a lot of them are closer to "social engineering" than logicalities:
i) does someone who uses 12345 for a password have anything worth stealing? ii) is it better to go for the low hanging fruit (12345) before progressing through the tougher cases ("[0-9?`~!@#$%^&*()-=+_?]BCDEFG",...)? iii) do you try all potential solutions on one password at a time before going onto the next password, or run all passwords through the easiest, then next easiest,... through hardest? iv) do you treat all accounts as equally worth cracking, or concentrate on the obviously valuable hard targets (remember, even low value accounts may get you closer to getting into high value accounts)?
John the ripper's source code may be a good place to start.
... doesn't requiring specific characters reduce the set of possible passwords, making it easier to crack? If I know there has to be a numeric (and max length is 8) I don't have to try ABCDEFG[A-Z], for example.
Add the potential of "`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\|,;:'"/?" in the square brackets and numerics instead, now you're talking secure. Why none of the graybeards back in the dark ages didn't come up with an RFC that codified Best Practice for this stuff, I don't know. Once you find yourself logging into Windows, OSF/1 (True64), AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, *BSD, and Mac, *times 2* (user + root/admin), you begin to see how abysmally this problem has been managed down through the years.
Dietrich T. Schmitz 110 Sherwood Acres Drive B8 Herkimer, NY 13350
I'd like some (a lot of) money too, so Dietrich, if anyone sends you any please forward it to me. TIA. This'll be *so* much better than actually working for it. Much appreciated. I'd never considered begging before.
If the government already knows about the evidence, they don't need me to provide it.
The government is prosecuting. They need to convince a judge. You're stopping them from doing that every second you stonewall. Don't you feel evil now? You're obstructing justice. If the judge believes them and you continue on this course, you'll be in contempt of court. They can lock you up and throw away the key for that. Have a nice life.
*FUCK*, the USA's justice system is perverted these days. Do any of you even bother to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, moral and immoral anymore?
If someone impersonated YOU on Facebook, you would certainly want their account suspended.
Yeah, about as much as I'd want the head of that guy who wrote something obnoxious about me with a magic marker on the walls of some public pay toilet. Meaning, not much. I can't wait for FB and Twitter to implode. They've both had far too long a run for what they're really worth.
I can see modding this into oblivion for its subject, but its content is bang on. Since when is cracking a twitter account of any import/interest whatsoever? CBS' twitter person can't pick passwords? Really?!? "OMG, it's an international incident, an attack on the Fourth Estate, a national tragedy,..." and this sort of thing happens all the time on slow news days. See the Xkcd "Someone ripped down a CIA poster!" comic.
The most interesting part of this is, someone actually thinks it's worth his time to crack CBS' twitter account. Now that is a wasted existence. Ran out of pr0n, did you?
...that JimboFBX needs to get a life. It's fucking Baseball.
The story is about the software used to score games. It appears to have a very difficult to surface bug.
Apart from that, you're an idiot. It's a game of physics, hundred plus mile an hour fastballs through palmballs. It's Mike Scioscia "smallball" vs. the New York Yankees payroll. It's Spring training vs. World Series vs. World Baseball Classic. It's dirt poor kids in sandlots in the Dominican Republic or Venezuela making it to The Show and becoming national heroes. It's seeing Fernando Valenzuela playing against the Calgary Cannons, fighting his way back into the majors (he made it).
Beats the crap out of shit like the NFL and NBA and there's no cheerleaders or glitzy half-time shows.
September 3rd 1752 wasn't the anniversary of anything.
(0) infidel/home/keeling_/usr/bin/calendar -l 0 -w 0 -t 17520903 Sep 03 Richard ``the Lionheart'' crowned king of England, 1189 Sep 03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino Sep 03 Independence Day in Qatar Sep 03 Memorial Day in Tunisia Sep 03 Bonne fête aux Grégoire ! Sep 03 Kriegserklärung Großbritaniens und Frankreichs an Deutschland, 1939 Sep 03 Vier-Mächte-Abkommen über Berlin, 1971 Sep 03 Hilda
Perhaps you meant that nothing worth celebrating or remembering appears to have happened on 1752-09-03?
But the coder actually thinks he's being really clever and doesn't realize all his Javascript comments are available for the world to read...
More likely he knows exactly what he's doing, meaning he's telling all the world what a blithering moron of a manager told him to do today. There are times when diplomacy is contra-indicated and the potential downside (blithering moron manager finding out about it) is very small. I'd say blithering moron manager painted himself into this corner.
The real goal could of had nothing to do with "hiding" the data.
If you could read, you might have seen that phrase spelled "could've", which is a contraction of the phrase "could have". Instead, you heard it spoken out loud and parsed it incorrectly as "could of". What the !@#$ does "could of" even mean?!?
... prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
... and you believe them?
Good point. I really no longer know what to believe. The US' "Justice System" reminds me of a black and white Keystone Kops comedy, if it weren't crushing people under its heel at the same time. Fibbies are making !@#$ up, the NSA is slurping $all and are convinced that's okay ("We haven't taken it until we've actually looked at it.") and the USTR is Hollywood's biatch (to say nothing about The House, the Senate, and the President). Who'da thunk it? Wow.
Besides, as phrased, the prosecutors can perfectly well not be seeking the death penalty. But once the prosecution is assured,...
I think nothing about current US law/legal system can surprise me any more. I thought J. Edgar's story was ridiculous. He was a piker compared to what's going on these days. You guys need a Jason Bourne running amok.
I hope I live long enough to see what comes of this mess. I thought Vasili Mitrokhin was a story teller. This crap way surpasses anything he wrote about.
Er, no: Bradley Manning: He was charged with a number of offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy, a capital offense, though prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
They need to round up this lot of criminals and send them to an island!
Yes, send them to an island on the opposite side of the world, let's say England.
That practically makes sense. The Brits would finally see sunshine, and the criminals would be surrounded by a moat and under constant CCTV surveillance. Blow up the Chunnel, and you're done.
"Yeah, we know you didn't really vote this Hitler fellow to be your Fuhrer, but it's okay; the Kaiser gave it to him in an attempt to shut him up. Move along; nothing to see here."
The Earth is one collision or one solar event away from complete sterilization.
Agreed.
... even without anthropocentric global warming and the like.
ITYM "anthropogenic."
Humans spreading across the stars is our only know chance of intelligent life sustaining an existence.
Once done (my opinion's mostly based on SF reading I've done), what's the point? All those far-flung human colonies are going to immediately differentiate from each other, leading to "us vs. them" on a galactic scale, so what really is the point of this exercise? Preservation of homo sapiens' DNA regardless? What for?
What's the point of the universe if there is nothing to appreciate it?
Now, that's anthropocentric. The Universe managed quite well for aeons before we dropped in and it'll continue to do so long after we're extinct. We're not the raison d'etre (despite many of us being convinced we are).
That's right, we don't know which of the 1215 domain names hosted the content that justified the block.
Which, really, is irrelevant. I see 1214 domains ripe for a class action lawsuit, possibly with slander/libel/restraint of trade/... mixed in. If each (or just a lot) of them ponied up $100 down payment (plus kickstarter?), that'd keep a lawyer going for a while.
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If there might be one (or more), but equally there might not, then you need to test all of those you mentioned plus ABCDEFG[A-Z].
I've spent zero time attempting to crack passwords, and I suspect /. is one of the last places to be if you want to learn how to. There's so many variables involved, it's not a simple problem, and a lot of them are closer to "social engineering" than logicalities:
i) does someone who uses 12345 for a password have anything worth stealing? ...)? ... through hardest?
ii) is it better to go for the low hanging fruit (12345) before progressing through the tougher cases ("[0-9?`~!@#$%^&*()-=+_?]BCDEFG",
iii) do you try all potential solutions on one password at a time before going onto the next password, or run all passwords through the easiest, then next easiest,
iv) do you treat all accounts as equally worth cracking, or concentrate on the obviously valuable hard targets (remember, even low value accounts may get you closer to getting into high value accounts)?
John the ripper's source code may be a good place to start.
... doesn't requiring specific characters reduce the set of possible passwords, making it easier to crack? If I know there has to be a numeric (and max length is 8) I don't have to try ABCDEFG[A-Z], for example.
ABCDEFG[0-9]
...
...
[0-9]BCDEFG
A[0-9]CDEFG
AB[0-9]DEFG
[0-9]bcdefg
Add the potential of "`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\|,;:'"/?" in the square brackets and numerics instead, now you're talking secure. Why none of the graybeards back in the dark ages didn't come up with an RFC that codified Best Practice for this stuff, I don't know. Once you find yourself logging into Windows, OSF/1 (True64), AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, *BSD, and Mac, *times 2* (user + root/admin), you begin to see how abysmally this problem has been managed down through the years.
So it looks like you're trying to do a budget....
Well, that's a bit ambiguous. Which did you mean:
i) "... and it'd be a shame if anything happened to it."
ii) Clippy.
what's the male version of mistress?
"Giggolo" or "Cabana Boy." Of course, "Employee" and "Taxpayer" work if you need gender neutral.
You forgot this:
Dietrich T. Schmitz
110 Sherwood Acres Drive B8
Herkimer, NY 13350
I'd like some (a lot of) money too, so Dietrich, if anyone sends you any please forward it to me. TIA. This'll be *so* much better than actually working for it. Much appreciated. I'd never considered begging before.
If the government already knows about the evidence, they don't need me to provide it.
The government is prosecuting. They need to convince a judge. You're stopping them from doing that every second you stonewall. Don't you feel evil now? You're obstructing justice. If the judge believes them and you continue on this course, you'll be in contempt of court. They can lock you up and throw away the key for that. Have a nice life.
*FUCK*, the USA's justice system is perverted these days. Do any of you even bother to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, moral and immoral anymore?
If someone impersonated YOU on Facebook, you would certainly want their account suspended.
Yeah, about as much as I'd want the head of that guy who wrote something obnoxious about me with a magic marker on the walls of some public pay toilet. Meaning, not much. I can't wait for FB and Twitter to implode. They've both had far too long a run for what they're really worth.
Wow. With grammar like that you should submit the story to slashdot.
I was just about to say, "Timothy?"
And slow news day!
I can see modding this into oblivion for its subject, but its content is bang on. Since when is cracking a twitter account of any import/interest whatsoever? CBS' twitter person can't pick passwords? Really?!? "OMG, it's an international incident, an attack on the Fourth Estate, a national tragedy, ..." and this sort of thing happens all the time on slow news days. See the Xkcd "Someone ripped down a CIA poster!" comic.
The most interesting part of this is, someone actually thinks it's worth his time to crack CBS' twitter account. Now that is a wasted existence. Ran out of pr0n, did you?
...that JimboFBX needs to get a life. It's fucking Baseball.
The story is about the software used to score games. It appears to have a very difficult to surface bug.
Apart from that, you're an idiot. It's a game of physics, hundred plus mile an hour fastballs through palmballs. It's Mike Scioscia "smallball" vs. the New York Yankees payroll. It's Spring training vs. World Series vs. World Baseball Classic. It's dirt poor kids in sandlots in the Dominican Republic or Venezuela making it to The Show and becoming national heroes. It's seeing Fernando Valenzuela playing against the Calgary Cannons, fighting his way back into the majors (he made it).
Beats the crap out of shit like the NFL and NBA and there's no cheerleaders or glitzy half-time shows.
... like match and dynamite.
Not unless you're Walter Brennan ("Rio Bravo"). Dynamite sans detonator burns like wood.
I'm sure he would have wound up the windows if the air smelt funny.
Slowly choking to death from noxious fumes, or slowly bleeding to death from shards of flying glass. Pass.
September 3rd 1752 wasn't the anniversary of anything.
(0) infidel /home/keeling_ /usr/bin/calendar -l 0 -w 0 -t 17520903
Sep 03 Richard ``the Lionheart'' crowned king of England, 1189
Sep 03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
Sep 03 Independence Day in Qatar
Sep 03 Memorial Day in Tunisia
Sep 03 Bonne fête aux Grégoire !
Sep 03 Kriegserklärung Großbritaniens und Frankreichs an Deutschland, 1939
Sep 03 Vier-Mächte-Abkommen über Berlin, 1971
Sep 03 Hilda
Perhaps you meant that nothing worth celebrating or remembering appears to have happened on 1752-09-03?
But the coder actually thinks he's being really clever and doesn't realize all his Javascript comments are available for the world to read ...
More likely he knows exactly what he's doing, meaning he's telling all the world what a blithering moron of a manager told him to do today. There are times when diplomacy is contra-indicated and the potential downside (blithering moron manager finding out about it) is very small. I'd say blithering moron manager painted himself into this corner.
The real goal could of had nothing to do with "hiding" the data.
If you could read, you might have seen that phrase spelled "could've", which is a contraction of the phrase "could have". Instead, you heard it spoken out loud and parsed it incorrectly as "could of". What the !@#$ does "could of" even mean?!?
You're welcome.
... prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
... and you believe them?
Good point. I really no longer know what to believe. The US' "Justice System" reminds me of a black and white Keystone Kops comedy, if it weren't crushing people under its heel at the same time. Fibbies are making !@#$ up, the NSA is slurping $all and are convinced that's okay ("We haven't taken it until we've actually looked at it.") and the USTR is Hollywood's biatch (to say nothing about The House, the Senate, and the President). Who'da thunk it? Wow.
Besides, as phrased, the prosecutors can perfectly well not be seeking the death penalty. But once the prosecution is assured, ...
I think nothing about current US law/legal system can surprise me any more. I thought J. Edgar's story was ridiculous. He was a piker compared to what's going on these days. You guys need a Jason Bourne running amok.
I hope I live long enough to see what comes of this mess. I thought Vasili Mitrokhin was a story teller. This crap way surpasses anything he wrote about.
He's facing execution ...
Er, no: Bradley Manning: He was charged with a number of offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy, a capital offense, though prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
so the problem is that the prosecuting and court handling site was not going to go about it fair and square in the first place.
Makes me wonder whether this is what Bradley Manning has to look forward to. Based on past actions, I'd bet yes.
The Brits would finally see sunshine ...
Assuming the Brits and criminals swapped islands, I meant.
They need to round up this lot of criminals and send them to an island!
Yes, send them to an island on the opposite side of the world, let's say England.
That practically makes sense. The Brits would finally see sunshine, and the criminals would be surrounded by a moat and under constant CCTV surveillance. Blow up the Chunnel, and you're done.
"Yeah, we know you didn't really vote this Hitler fellow to be your Fuhrer, but it's okay; the Kaiser gave it to him in an attempt to shut him up. Move along; nothing to see here."
We're not the raison d'etre (despite many of us being convinced we are).
At least after the heat death of the universe no one will use french for phrases that have an exact literal translation.
Yeah, since this's science we're puzzling about here, I should have used ancient Greek or Latin, sorry. I didn't want to sound like a lawyer.
For your own sake, try to stay off the internet for a little while and see what the world is really like.
Nasty, brutal, and short. Anything to add?
The Earth is one collision or one solar event away from complete sterilization.
Agreed.
... even without anthropocentric global warming and the like.
ITYM "anthropogenic."
Humans spreading across the stars is our only know chance of intelligent life sustaining an existence.
Once done (my opinion's mostly based on SF reading I've done), what's the point? All those far-flung human colonies are going to immediately differentiate from each other, leading to "us vs. them" on a galactic scale, so what really is the point of this exercise? Preservation of homo sapiens' DNA regardless? What for?
What's the point of the universe if there is nothing to appreciate it?
Now, that's anthropocentric. The Universe managed quite well for aeons before we dropped in and it'll continue to do so long after we're extinct. We're not the raison d'etre (despite many of us being convinced we are).
That's right, we don't know which of the 1215 domain names hosted the content that justified the block.
Which, really, is irrelevant. I see 1214 domains ripe for a class action lawsuit, possibly with slander/libel/restraint of trade/... mixed in. If each (or just a lot) of them ponied up $100 down payment (plus kickstarter?), that'd keep a lawyer going for a while.