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Nostalgia factor is kicking into high gear on this one, as I haven't thought of L0phtCrack since the early 2000s.

RNCTX 5y ago
Pretty sure I used it in the early 2000s to get at Win2k passwords that were lost/forgotten. Took about an hour on a K6-III 450 ;).
senectus1 5y ago
lol now i feel old. none of my co-workers know the name :-(
- Svperstar 5y ago
  I used lophtcrack to get the windows admin password to the computer lab PCs in high school :)
  - simonmales 5y ago
    Yep, and the password was 'driver'.
    - Svperstar 5y ago
      Actually it was bhs-2020 still remember it after all these years
      - jhpankow 5y ago
        At my school the password was the person’s username. Someone guessed it one day. Which in hindsight was inevitable when the login screen was exposed to hundreds of bored kids every day.
    - richarme 5y ago
      In my school's case it was 'passwd'. No cracking needed to obtain that one though, the admin had it written on a post-it on his monitor.
      - stordoff 5y ago
        My school's domain admin password was 'school' (later changed to the school's name with O->0 substitution). It's marginally better than their VNC password though, which was 'vnc' (VNC Server was installed on every machine in the school).
shellum 5y ago
Right? I think it was introduced at DefCon ~5. As I remember the introduction speech, Mudge got sick over a weekend and implemented it. Good times!
angled 5y ago
It's making me nostalgic for all of the old tools - what was another one, ``john''? Although that seems to have been modernised. https://www.openwall.com/john/ https://www.openwall.com/john/
- deleted 5y ago
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- cbanek 5y ago
  And of course, the CDC's hilarity toolbox: Back Orifice. Being able to eject all the CD-ROM drives in a computer lab together was really worth it.
  - irthomasthomas 5y ago
    God I miss those days. And now I feel old, like the father I thought I'd never be. Nostalgic for an age that I thought was forever. But really, never was.

Pretty sure I used it in the early 2000s to get at Win2k passwords that were lost/forgotten. Took about an hour on a K6-III 450 ;).

senectus1 5y ago

lol now i feel old. none of my co-workers know the name :-(

Svperstar 5y ago
I used lophtcrack to get the windows admin password to the computer lab PCs in high school :)
- simonmales 5y ago
  Yep, and the password was 'driver'.
  - Svperstar 5y ago
    Actually it was bhs-2020 still remember it after all these years
    - jhpankow 5y ago
      At my school the password was the person’s username. Someone guessed it one day. Which in hindsight was inevitable when the login screen was exposed to hundreds of bored kids every day.
  - richarme 5y ago
    In my school's case it was 'passwd'. No cracking needed to obtain that one though, the admin had it written on a post-it on his monitor.
    - stordoff 5y ago
      My school's domain admin password was 'school' (later changed to the school's name with O->0 substitution). It's marginally better than their VNC password though, which was 'vnc' (VNC Server was installed on every machine in the school).

shellum 5y ago

Right? I think it was introduced at DefCon ~5. As I remember the introduction speech, Mudge got sick over a weekend and implemented it. Good times!

angled 5y ago

It's making me nostalgic for all of the old tools - what was another one, ``john''? Although that seems to have been modernised. https://www.openwall.com/john/ https://www.openwall.com/john/

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cbanek 5y ago
And of course, the CDC's hilarity toolbox: Back Orifice. Being able to eject all the CD-ROM drives in a computer lab together was really worth it.
- irthomasthomas 5y ago
  God I miss those days. And now I feel old, like the father I thought I'd never be. Nostalgic for an age that I thought was forever. But really, never was.