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Feds indict ex-Michigan FB coach Matt Weiss: Hacked computers to spy on women

33 points by rmason 2y ago

toomuchtodo 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Weiss_(American_football) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Weiss_(American_football)
brookst 2y ago
I can’t tell if the freep.com website has awesome ads that break my adblockers, has no actual content, or is some sort of weird post-information artistic statement. One way or another there doesn’t seem to be anything related to the headline there.
- RandallBrown 2y ago
  Your adblockers are broken. There's an entire article there.
NikolaNovak 2y ago
I don't get it. Now, this is obviously both illegal and Immoral. But also, like... A Lot of work just to expand your porn stash. And it's 2025! There's so much legal, commercial, easily accessible pornography out there to suit all tastes and preferences and formats. So the sheer effort and time and dedication and knowledge to perpetuate such massive amount of illegal activity over a long dedicated period for such a seemingly minuscule if any gain... As I said, I just don't get it :-/
- b0sk 2y ago
  I think doing illegal things gave him that extra kick. real innocent people and all.
- 13_9_7_7_5_18 2y ago
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- Whatarethese 2y ago
  Probably the fact of having things that no one else has.
- chneu 2y ago
  It's about control and taking away people's autonomy.
e44858 2y ago
> breaking into their social media, email and other accounts by guessing or resetting their passwords, the indictment said. Password re-use seems to be too common.
gundmc 2y ago
Shouldn't "downloading and cracking encrypted passwords" be functionally impossible? This third party must have had atrocious practices.
- lolinder 2y ago
  Presumably this is referring to him downloading one of many different data breaches that are out there, and yes, many of the services that have had their password databases leaked had terrible security practices. Couple that with password reuse across services by the victims and he'd be able to guess passwords for the services he was actually interested in based on the passwords he got from the data leaks. Also, note that the article is probably misusing the word "encrypted"—you usually hash passwords, not encrypt them, and plenty of services will have used a bad hash function or failed to salt their passwords, opening them up to easy brute forcing with rainbow tables [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
- ziddoap 2y ago
  It's not cracking in the sense of a mathematical breaking of the underlying crypto. It's cracking in the sense of like, hashcat. Using wordlists, common passwords, common patterns (1 on the end, substituting a with @, i with !, etc.) and other methods and seeing if you output something that matches something on the list of hashed passwords you downloaded.

33 points by rmason 2y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Weiss_(American_football) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Weiss_(American_football)

brookst 2y ago

I can’t tell if the freep.com website has awesome ads that break my adblockers, has no actual content, or is some sort of weird post-information artistic statement. One way or another there doesn’t seem to be anything related to the headline there.

RandallBrown 2y ago
Your adblockers are broken. There's an entire article there.

NikolaNovak 2y ago

I don't get it. Now, this is obviously both illegal and Immoral. But also, like... A Lot of work just to expand your porn stash. And it's 2025! There's so much legal, commercial, easily accessible pornography out there to suit all tastes and preferences and formats. So the sheer effort and time and dedication and knowledge to perpetuate such massive amount of illegal activity over a long dedicated period for such a seemingly minuscule if any gain... As I said, I just don't get it :-/

b0sk 2y ago
I think doing illegal things gave him that extra kick. real innocent people and all.
13_9_7_7_5_18 2y ago
[dead]
Whatarethese 2y ago
Probably the fact of having things that no one else has.
chneu 2y ago
It's about control and taking away people's autonomy.

e44858 2y ago

> breaking into their social media, email and other accounts by guessing or resetting their passwords, the indictment said. Password re-use seems to be too common.

gundmc 2y ago

Shouldn't "downloading and cracking encrypted passwords" be functionally impossible? This third party must have had atrocious practices.

lolinder 2y ago
Presumably this is referring to him downloading one of many different data breaches that are out there, and yes, many of the services that have had their password databases leaked had terrible security practices. Couple that with password reuse across services by the victims and he'd be able to guess passwords for the services he was actually interested in based on the passwords he got from the data leaks. Also, note that the article is probably misusing the word "encrypted"—you usually hash passwords, not encrypt them, and plenty of services will have used a bad hash function or failed to salt their passwords, opening them up to easy brute forcing with rainbow tables [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
ziddoap 2y ago
It's not cracking in the sense of a mathematical breaking of the underlying crypto. It's cracking in the sense of like, hashcat. Using wordlists, common passwords, common patterns (1 on the end, substituting a with @, i with !, etc.) and other methods and seeing if you output something that matches something on the list of hashed passwords you downloaded.