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The article explains how all the passwords were revealed except for "qeadzcwrsfxv1331". Maybe I missed it but could anybody point out to me which method reveale
by jd007 13y ago
The article explains how all the passwords were revealed except for "qeadzcwrsfxv1331". Maybe I missed it but could anybody point out to me which method revealed this password? The letters seem to not form any words that I know, and although is appended with a number and consists of only lower case letters, it's still 12-letters long, longer than any brute-forced in the article. Edit: They tried all the keyboard typing patterns I suppose, I just realized the pattern of the string when typed on the keyboard.
- kenbot 13y agoTry looking at the pattern the letters form on the keyboard...
- jd007 13y agoYeah thanks, I literally realized that as I hit reply on that comment lol
- simias 13y agoGood catch, but it could also simply be that the password had been collected during a previous hack. The article mentions it at the end but I think they should have insisted more on this point: if you have a very strong password that you reuse everywhere and it gets leaked at some point it has a high probability to end up in rainbow tables everywhere and might not be more secure than "h4x0r1234". So using hard to guess passwords is the easy part, the hard part is using different hard to guess passwords everywhere.
- qu4z-2 13y agoCould you explain the rainbow tables comment? I would've thought it'd end up in a dictionary, not a rainbow table. (although I have to admit I've forgotten the details of how rainbow tables work)