Absolutely a few years ago I was asked to break into some systems (nt) for one of the UK's cinema chains - this was with express permission and the OK from very

Absolutely a few years ago I was asked to break into some systems (nt) for one of the UK's cinema chains - this was with express permission and the OK from very senior management on our side I should say. As I had physical access I could boot off floppy and extract the secrets and break them using brute force - I use our art directors then top of the line mac pro. So I never did get to set up my own cracking farm using the dozen or so suns we had not sure the secret Squirrels would have liked the competition.