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Re: Password Cracking & Consequences
From: Scott Weeks <sweeks () SANDIEGO EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:48:29 -0700
: At any institution where passwords are cracked, if a user were found to : be doing illegal things (pornography, sharing music) under their : account, they would have the perfect defense, because someone else could : know their password. I'd sure state that someone else knew my password : and look it is common practice for the system administrators to look up : the passwords, I believe one of them must have told someone else my : password. But the password would've been changed and retested until there was no weakness. Meaning LC5, Crack or John the Ripper could not guess it in a reasonable amount of time. Therefore, no one would know it. scott ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
Current thread:
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences, (continued)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Jeff Giacobbe (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Geoff Nathan (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Lucas, Bryan (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Ron Parker (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Stephen Bernard (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Ron Parker (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Eric Pancer (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Ken Shaurette (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Wayne J. Hauber (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Scott Bradner (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Scott Weeks (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences James Riden (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Scott Bradner (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Scott Bradner (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences James Riden (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Michael Mills (Aug 26)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Theresa M Rowe (Aug 27)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Wayne Wilson (Aug 27)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Gary Flynn (Aug 27)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Lucas, Bryan (Aug 27)
- Re: Password Cracking & Consequences Gary Flynn (Aug 27)
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