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"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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LOL very funny, well, not funny that he was hacked but anyway..
i didn't like Hotmail 10 years ago and I had not even heard of Linux.
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A seven-character password, all lower case letters? That's a keyspace of 26^7 = 8,031,810,176. Crackable in a matter of minutes; seconds if you have a rainbow table. Given the publicity of his experiment, he becomes a target, and he should have anticipated that.Comment
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Simple explanation for Rainbow Tables, so even the ol' woodsmoker can unnerstand 'em
woodhadnotheardofrainbowtablesbeforethanksSRsmokeComment
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