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yathern
14y ago
I see, but isn't brute-forcing "aecd8c83718c381cpassworda3802..." going to take far, far longer? Even on some huge botnet clusters, I still don't imagine how it could be possible to crack that very quickly.
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14y ago
The article states that LinkedIn was using salted SHA-1 hashes, but I thought that wasn't the case. Either way, aren't salted hashes essentially uncrackable by all means except full out brute force? If my password is "password", and I chang
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yathern
14y ago
What he is saying is that captchas work solely on the fact that computers aren't fantastic at character recognition yet, so there isn't much way to have bots force their way in. This method will work temporarily, because it's new, and obscu
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yathern
15y ago
My question is would this be possible with a strobe light? Or even better, a florescent light? That would make some very impressive shows, if you could have a whole hallway with different streams, all synchronized to the frequency that the
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yathern
15y ago
> Luckily, the magnet is not strong enough to wipe out credit cards nor will it negatively affect electronics or computer monitors. He doesn't specifically say anything about tapes or Hard Drives, but I doubt it.
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15y ago
Anyone who liked this read might also like the read "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". Its such an interesting book, and teaches through very simple ways.
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15y ago
I'm not sure if this will even be visible, but I'd love to have the site with css/divs instead of tables/html styling. This is because I use plugings to manually edit the css to make it look prettier, but I can only go so far when all table