How Charles Dickens Helped Crack Your Linkedin Password

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 07 June 2012 - 10:40 PM

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#2 DeweySayenoff

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 01:08 AM

If you don't understand the problem you will never find solutions.
The better question is WHY would you NOT encourage open discussion? This whole article reads like many of the closed IRC channels I've been privileged to be in at times. Not discussing this stuff is why it's so easy to perpetrate.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 02:39 AM

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

Yeah, like sticking your neck in the sand has prevented mischief so far.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 05:20 AM

Gnostradamus, on 08 June 2012 - 02:39 AM, said:

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

Yeah, like sticking your neck in the sand has prevented mischief so far.

I believe the first poster is asking why PC World is "encouraging" someone to continue to crack the user passwords that have not yet been cracked by the hackers.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 05:57 AM

SeSorrow, on 08 June 2012 - 05:20 AM, said:

Gnostradamus, on 08 June 2012 - 02:39 AM, said:

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

Yeah, like sticking your neck in the sand has prevented mischief so far.

I believe the first poster is asking why PC World is "encouraging" someone to continue to crack the user passwords that have not yet been cracked by the hackers.

For Science!

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#8 oldschoolh4ck3r

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 12:52 PM

Good article. Security through obscurity never succeeds. Always best to think like the criminals do in order to come up with better security solutions.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 01:14 PM

Well...as is the case with all human behavior, it is the intention that matters.  If you intention is to crack the passwords for the sake of perpetrating a crime, then you are most likely a criminal mind.  If your purpose is to instruct others in how to better secure themselves, I would say that you are a teacher.  Fear the criminal, reward the teacher.

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 02:55 PM

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

I thought I was reading a "Hackers Headache" blog! lol

I have to agree with the others, sounds like you are helping them.
This info does not need to be out. I learned more about paswword hacking here than I ever knew! :wacko:

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#11 ronin7752

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 06:00 PM

I'm still wondering why no one is considering the possibility that stolen passwords -- or technical assistance in stealing them -- is coming directly from disgruntled (and/or paid) employees "on the inside"?

Seems a simpler and more plausible explanation, to me.

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Posted 09 June 2012 - 12:41 AM

TPBGirl, on 08 June 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

No the information is to help you. By empowering you with the knowledge, you'll appreciate the need for more secure password. The criminals already know more than was on this page

#13 ailurophile

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 11:15 PM

What's Charles Dickens have to do with it? They named one of his books, along with those of other authors, in one sentence in one 'graph. Terrible headline-writing.

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Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:59 AM

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

Another way to think of it, is that it may well help people stop using simplistic and idiotic passwords. If people know that the way they make passwords, is also a way that hackers/crackers/etc use to decipher them, then they'll change their methodology in how they make passwords in the first place.

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Posted 14 June 2012 - 01:18 PM

TPBGirl, on 08 June 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

DeweySayenoff, on 08 June 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

You're ENCOURAGING this, PC World???

I would suggest re-reading the messages above. In order to combat hacking, we need to understand what they're doing and how they're doing it. Can you use the article above to make your passwords harder to crack? (Hint: Make them long with a mix of cases and letters/numbers.)

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