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L0phtCrack 7 Shows Windows Passwords Easier to Crack Now Than 20 Years Ago
- blackflame7000 10y agoWindows has always done idiotic things when it comes to password security. Whoever thought it was a good idea to split all passwords longer than 7 letters into multiple passwords of max 7 letters in the original LANMAN system deserves some sort of dunce cap award.
- voycey 10y agoThe windows password is more of a "Please don't use my area and ruin my browsing history" than an actual security option, I thought that was well known? Full disk encryption is really the only way if you want to keep people out of your stuff!
- pasbesoin 10y agoIt's well known among people who know about these things. My mother, on the other hand? Me: "What if your laptop is stolen?" Her: "But it has a password." And she's far from the only one -- just in my anecdotal life.