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insboswiz

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  1. Okay, so the question remains, does the current incarnation of the rainbow tables automatically handle passwords up to 14 characters or does it require some manual intervention to work?
  2. Okay, first of all apologies for a somewhat ignorant question here: LM hashes can be up to 14 characters (if your password is more than 14 characters, Windows will simply not generate an LM hash) Now, I also know that LM hashes greater than 7 characters but less than 15 are broken into two 7 character pieces which is one of the reasons that LM is so much easier to crack than NTLM. So, say I use pwdump to dump the LM hashes some of which are for passwords greater than 7 characters. My question is, if I use these tables with the rainbow crack program, will the rainbow crack program know how to break the hash into two pieces and determine the plaintext or will it fail with passwords greater than 7 characters?
  3. I watched that epiode with interest, but I have way less time on my hands (happens when you get married and have a kid) so I went ahead and saved some time and bought one of those pre-bulit dual controllers from the nice folks over at X-Arcade. You can mod Wess's design for the cab to drop in the dual controller and have a working cab with very little work. The next step for me will be to go ahead and get a real arcade monitor and video card that supports it.
  4. It seems that the Canadian version of G4 still deals with tech shows while the U.S. version continues to add more non-tech crap - hey run old episodes of the Man show on Comedy central - leave G4 for tech stuff! i would love to see shows such as Call for Help and the new Torrents show. Is there any way to get the Canadian G4 shows in the U.S. outside of Bittorrent downloads?
  5. I know that Darren is planning to do a behind the scenes at some point (all of the cool content they keep coming up with keeps pushing it back), but maybe you could satisfy my curiosity (and other people's I'm sure) by telling us what hardware/software you use to create the show. I have seen other vidcasts that use the mac stuff, but I know that Darren uses PC-based software for Hak.5 and I would love to know what it is. On that topic - does anyone know of good screen capture software for Linux? Camtasia studio rocks for the PC, but if you are trying to do Linux live screen captures, is there something out there that can do it? I am planning to start my own vidcast in the next few months and would like to be able to demo Linux utis as well as windows ones and would prefer not to have to just focus a vid camera on an LCD panel to do the screen caps
  6. Hi Folks, Thanks for all of the great advice - special kudos to Harrison for that lengthy and extremely helpful recommended reading list. This is going to be an interesting exercise. Still the question remains - which environment and what tools do folks recommend for the actual programming? Should I look at MS Visual Studio 6 (which I have somewhere) or should I be doing it directly on Linux? Do folks just write using an editor or are there recommended tools? Let me know what you are using. If anyone is interested in the article that I was referring to in my original post, you can check it out here: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1861 An Harrsion- by the way - you are missed in the Episodes. Like you, my primary interest is security and your spots were what originally got me interested in Hak.5 (not that the rest of the show isn't great too - it is!) jim
  7. Okay, so I was reading an article the other day in which the author suggested that for Security folks to take it to the next level, they need to 1. get down and dirty with the protocol stack and 2. Learn some programming languages, particluarly C and C++. Got #1 covered. So for #2, I got to thinking that learning C is not a bad idea particulalry if you want to plan in the Linux world. So, I start to do some research and there does not appear to be much in the way of current books on C. Anyone have any suggestions on learning C? I have some limited background in programming (did Fortran and Basic in high school and Pascal and COBOL in college) - yes I'm old - get over it, I have. I have also played a bit with C#. Given that background, what is the best way to go? My primary machine is Windows, but it is not really a problem to get a Linux VM running if that is the best environment to play in. I would prefer to stay in Windows, but am willing to use Linux if neccessary.
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