"Seriously though, you are a complete idiot who has no clue what they're talking about. Let me try to explain this one thing one time for you simpleton"
Comical Irony Alert, you know, coming from the established idiot with an unfortunate reading deficiency.
"Password Crackers (especially the one I am talking about which was used on the show) does NOT use a standard "Dictionary", it uses what is called a "Password Dictionary Attack" which is a specific list of both commonly used Passwords, and not so commonly used passwords along with variations thereof.... millions of them. And the Password cracker goes through them all in minutes and if it doesn't find a perfect match, then it goes back through and does variations of the listed password in the custom-made Password Dictionary."
It doesn't matter what kind of dictionary it is, clodpate. Once again:
Password crackers are only useful on local password-protected files (such as a password-protected .ZIP or .RAR file), and even then you have to get lucky enough for the password to be simple, e.g., words found in a dictionary. If it's something that has a combination of uppercase, lowercase, and non-letter/number characters, it will take the rest of your life and then some for a brute force cracker to find the password, unless you get extremely lucky, as in, winning the Powerball lottery kind of lucky."
Does the "bolding" help? Do you think that, e.g., 3Ak!pNb".9^A??Z}, will be found in any dictionary?
And LOL at "millions". The number of possible passwords for just an 8-digit one is in the neighborhood of quadrillions.
"If someone is smart enough to have a really good complicated password like D9gjs&p3! then yeah, it may be impossible for the tool to crack that, but who has a password like that? Who can remember a password like that? (and you are not supposed to write your password down, so most people choose one they can remember.) The last time I used a tool like that against a so-called "I.T. Expert" his password was the typical "IamGod123" which was in my Password Dictionary along with hundreds of variations of that (again, PASSWORD Dictionary, not Standard Dictionary you moron!)"
It doesn't matter that you're not "supposed" to write a password down; you certainly can write a password down and do so in a way that no one is going to find it. Furthermore, as I've already said and you were too stupid to grasp, password crackers are only useful on local password-protected files (such as a password-protected .ZIP or .RAR file). You can't use a password cracker to gain access to a password-protected account, because it will lock you out after a few failed attempts. That's important because the password bypassing that went on in this show was nearly always, if not always, to access accounts.
And I didn't say anything about "standard dictionary", numbnuts. I said ANY dictionary.
"And yes dumbshit"
Comical Irony Alert: Part III
"this is exactly why companies like Paypal, and Bank of America, and Capital One, and Sony, Yahoo, AdultFriendFinder, Myspace and so many more have ALL been hacked!"
Thank you, Captain Obvious, but that doesn't have anything to do with what I said. Once again:
If passwords were easily bypassed, any "hacker" could have access to unlimited funds, simply by logging into anyone's bank, PayPal, etc., account whenever they wanted to.
Since you're stupid, I'll point out the obvious: that means it would be happening millions of times a day, every day. In reality, it rarely happens because you're not getting into someone's e.g., bank or PayPal account unless you know or can guess (within a few tries before being locked out) their password.
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Blackbeard (86)
3 years ago
Jeezus, you really are just about the stupidest person I've ever seen online, or more likely, just trolling... Hacking happens more often than you realize. There are also good hackers (not white hats, I mean, people good at hacking) and bad hackers (people not too bright, you know, like you!) You make it sound like "there are millions of hackers and if it's that easy then all of them should be able to hack every single person's bank account in the entire world every day, otherwise, it's not possible at all", but I am telling you it IS fucking possible, never said it was easy (but it is for those who know how) and most importantly, the whole point I was actually making is, the accuracy of the show; because just about everything that Elliot did in the show (not every single thing you pedantic asswipe, but most of the things) can be done, because they HAVE been done by MANY (not millions you stupid fuck) of hackers, including me. So you can fuck right off, I don't care what you think is possible or not...
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MaximRecoil (4054)
3 years ago
"Jeezus, you really are just about the stupidest person I've ever seen online, or more likely, just trolling..."
Comical Irony Alert: Part IV
"Hacking happens more often than you realize."
Your non sequitur is dismissed, simpleton.
"There are also good hackers (not white hats, I mean, people good at hacking) and bad hackers"
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
"(people not too bright, you know, like you!)"
Comical Irony Alert: Part V
"You make it sound like "there are millions of hackers and if it's that easy then all of them should be able to hack every single person's bank account in the entire world every day, otherwise, it's not possible at all", but I am telling you it IS fucking possible"
Reading Deficiency Alert: Part III
In other words, I never said it was impossible, numbnuts. The specific type of "hacking" on this show which is a point of contention is routinely accessing password-protected accounts on remote servers without fail, which is utterly absurd due to the degree of implausibility being through the roof.
"not millions you stupid fuck"
Comical Irony Alert: Part VI
"of hackers, including me."
LOL. Okay, Zero Cool, go ahead and explain how you would log into someone's e.g., PayPal account without knowing their password. You only have a few tries before you get locked out for a couple of hours. There is no software tool that can help you, because it will only have a few tries too, obviously. That's why successful "hacking" isn't done by simply bypassing passwords on remote accounts at-will, because you can only do that if you're lucky enough that they used a very common/stupid password like "password" that you can guess within a few tries. Successful hacking of that type involves things such as "social engineering" and other methods which allow you to find out the correct password beforehand, which of course takes time, and there's obviously no guarantee that your efforts to find out the correct password will be successful.
"Hacking" on this show and most other shows/movies is portrayed as someone that a "good hacker" can always successfully do. In really, when it comes to accessing a remote password-protected account, there are various things that anyone can try, all of which have a low probability of success (such as guessing the password or using various forms of "social engineering" [which includes "phishing" attempts] to get the account owner to tell/give you the password without them realizing they are giving their password to a "hacker"). And the idea of using "password cracker" software on a remote password is laughable, because it will only get a few tries before the server locks it out. Password crackers are only useful on password-protected files that you already have access to, as I've already said.
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Burgershmurger (1268)
3 years ago
It's like locked doors getting smashed in with a simple kick when it helps advancing the plot. You wonder why they lock doors in the first place. The same with passwords. It's just fiction which relies on suspension of disbelief.
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