http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/intern...hack/index.html

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we do this alot at my school

"It took three hacking programs less than a second -- 200 milliseconds to be exact -- to find the password to the school's computer, Reid said. It was the school secretary's name: Silvia."

That's pretty trivial - he used a program with a known set of words to try.

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Originally posted by Swamper "It took three hacking programs less than a second -- 200 milliseconds to be exact -- to find the password to the school's computer, Reid said. It was the school secretary's name: Silvia." That's pretty trivial - he used a program with a known set of words to try.

yea...they make it sound like this kid was a genieus....it's a very common method....

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...It's not common to me...



At least I think it's somewhat impressive, even if it is a fairly easy password.

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Originally posted by Tranex02 yea...they make it sound like this kid was a genieus....it's a very common method....

Yeh that's common practice. I got references for doing that when I was in school.

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Brute force approach is for the weak, and easelly detected by any modern OS too .....

Installing a key listener on every computer was what I did back in my HS.... People were login in, unaware that their keyboard typing was all registered into a log file... At the end of the day, I had almsot all the logins and passwords I ever needed, from Supervisor's to teachers to fellow high schoolers...

.. but then again, that was a long ass time ago, and DOS/Novel security wasn't really the hardest thing to get by..

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Any nutbar coulda done it, its the schools fault anyways, the should have such an easy password :P

heh, couldnt agree with swamper more.

pasword tips..

10 or morce characters long
change cases
included numbers, letters, foreign keys.
dont write it down

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lol.. the kid's like "I made FUCKING SURE they gave me my A's back!!"

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I heard that sometimes the first 8 characters of a password aren't checked which makes it doubly insecure/crackable...is this true/have you heard it, if so where would something like this happen?

"You see, Reid already has a perfect 4.0 grade point average at Anzar High School in San Juan Bautista, California. So to leave his mark, he decided to lower his grades to a 1.9 GPA -- a meager D+. "

anyone who thinks this kid is actually quite stupid, raise your hand

*raises hand and slaps Reid*