<story><title>L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source</title><url>https://twitter.com/dildog/status/1421830165911556099</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Bit of related history about password-cracking tools...&lt;p&gt;A bit before L0pht was founded, one of the open source crackers for Unix passwords was called Crack.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Crack_(password_software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Crack_(password_software)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the time, SunOS was distributing the encrypted passwords for an organization over the LAN via YP (aka NIS).  I worked for a company with lots of Suns and other Unix workstations, and I&amp;#x27;d gotten almost all of the non-Suns also configured to use and trust the YP maps.  (The goal was to reduce friction to engineering work, and we weren&amp;#x27;t directly connected to the Internet.)  So I ran my site&amp;#x27;s passwords through Crack one evening, and it easily got many people&amp;#x27;s passwords.  (I don&amp;#x27;t remember how many SPARCstations I threw at it, but it was probably only a few, less than 100 MIPS total.)&lt;p&gt;Things like running Crack were within the scope of the sysadmin side of my job at time, I dutifully reported the concerning results to the head sysadmin, engineers were asked to change weak passwords, and all was good.&lt;p&gt;Some people who ran Crack at some &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; companies, however, got in big trouble, when there was ambiguity or misunderstanding, about their authority or intent.  Besides all the mischief-or-worse uses of Crack that presumably went on.  (Disclosure: One of the net.famous people who got a career footnote by running Crack happened to be an acquaintance for a while, years later; I didn&amp;#x27;t ask them about what must&amp;#x27;ve been a pretty upsetting event, and I just now read on Wikipedia that their case was expunged in the end.)</text></comment>
<story><title>L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source</title><url>https://twitter.com/dildog/status/1421830165911556099</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MauranKilom</author><text>For context:&lt;p&gt;L0phtCrack -&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;L0phtCrack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;L0phtCrack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DilDog -&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Christien_Rioux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Christien_Rioux&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>