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Researcher cracks Wi-Fi passwords with Amazon cloud

30 pointsby KiwiNigeover 14 years ago

3 comments

ck2over 14 years ago
Not judging but I love how the term "researcher" has been adopted as a way to guise whitehat activities.<p>I wish I could use that to get out of speeding tickets<p><i>"Officer I am just a researcher and trying to determine if the 55mph speed limit sign is really the law and if it's possible to break it"</i>
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dmfdmfover 14 years ago
Is this some kind of artificial test or is it a real issue? What I mean is that the article mentions running through about 400,000 passwords per second and the hack took 20 minutes. But wouldn't most servers or routers block the user out after so many failed logins? How do they get around that?
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drivebyacct2over 14 years ago
Wasn't this done months ago? (/me looks for the article)<p>Well, this was more generic: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907513" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907513</a><p>Oh, it was over a year ago: <a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/07/2322235/WPA-PSK-Cracking-As-a-Service?from=rss" rel="nofollow">http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/07/2322235/WPA-PSK-Cracki...</a>
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