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There’s a reason there are no books about this, because most people are not interested in cracking local/offline passwords. In fact, the people most interested

There’s a reason there are no books about this, because most people are not interested in cracking local/offline passwords. In fact, the people most interested in password cracking are usually criminals. But good luck with the book. It’s just not a hugely in demand topic.

papascrubs 5mo ago
Uh, what? I'd say that this is a bit relevant to the entire field of cyber security and a good chunk of development roles. If you're not concerned about how password hashing (which is a key component of understanding cracking) works as developer-- I'm not sure what to say. While not all of the in-depth research is probably needed. It's definitely relevant to many technical fields. I work in offensive security and we use tools like this daily in our industry. And no we are not cyber criminals.
Tamklomo 5mo ago
The reason is, that using hashcat is not complicated for people who have linux experience and the amount of people wanting to crack a password is probably not that high. Otherwise you do find plenty of people on YT walking you through hashcat. The first YT Video alone has 7 Million views: "how to HACK a password // password cracking with Kali Linux and HashCat" I wish him luck, great drive to do this, i hope it works out well enough, books are just in general not easy to sell.
virtualritz 5mo ago
When I lived in Adelaide, Australia 2006 or 2007, flexible-neck LED lamps that you plugged into an USB port to have light on your keyboard (backlit keyboards were not the norm on laptops) were a novelty item. People simply didn't /know/ about them/that they existed at all. I went to a computer/electronics shop in town and asked for them. The guy told me: "We don't stock them because people don't ask for them."
K0balt 5mo ago
Tons of people in it service occasionally would like to crack local passwords for clients. It’s a big world. That’s thousands of people needing to do this every month. More than enough to make a self published book worth publishing. I’ve sold a few books that even though they maybe only sell a few copies a month have made me more than 250k over the years. Slow returns, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

papascrubs 5mo ago

Uh, what? I'd say that this is a bit relevant to the entire field of cyber security and a good chunk of development roles. If you're not concerned about how password hashing (which is a key component of understanding cracking) works as developer-- I'm not sure what to say. While not all of the in-depth research is probably needed. It's definitely relevant to many technical fields. I work in offensive security and we use tools like this daily in our industry. And no we are not cyber criminals.

Tamklomo 5mo ago

The reason is, that using hashcat is not complicated for people who have linux experience and the amount of people wanting to crack a password is probably not that high. Otherwise you do find plenty of people on YT walking you through hashcat. The first YT Video alone has 7 Million views: "how to HACK a password // password cracking with Kali Linux and HashCat" I wish him luck, great drive to do this, i hope it works out well enough, books are just in general not easy to sell.

virtualritz 5mo ago

When I lived in Adelaide, Australia 2006 or 2007, flexible-neck LED lamps that you plugged into an USB port to have light on your keyboard (backlit keyboards were not the norm on laptops) were a novelty item. People simply didn't /know/ about them/that they existed at all. I went to a computer/electronics shop in town and asked for them. The guy told me: "We don't stock them because people don't ask for them."

K0balt 5mo ago

Tons of people in it service occasionally would like to crack local passwords for clients. It’s a big world. That’s thousands of people needing to do this every month. More than enough to make a self published book worth publishing. I’ve sold a few books that even though they maybe only sell a few copies a month have made me more than 250k over the years. Slow returns, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving.