A typical Scene pirate, bribing record-store employees and cracking software, might be granted access to three or four topsites.
When used with cracking software optimised for parallel processing, attackers can make billions of guesses a second using nothing more than a high-end gaming PC.
Given the pace of innovation in graphics processors, coupled with the increasing power of cracking software (mostly available for free on the internet), even the best password defences are destined to be overwhelmed in due course.
While I think we can all agree that cracking software isn't ethical, legal, or moral, neither is taking on powers that could be used in entirely unpredictable ways.
Eventually, Cameruci graduated from cracking software to body hacking.
The weakness of these systems is that if one of your devices is stolen, hackers can run password-cracking software such as the charmingly named John the Ripper to unlock the master password.
"My advice: don't use a password that can be found in the dictionary," said Mr. Hale at Homeland Security, who notes that password-cracking software programs anticipate that people will do just that.
Various other adjuncts including, obviously, a few good elements of anagram software.
Judging by the comments, this is obviously a cracking bit of software, so well done for that.
The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement DesoftwarePDG) software utilizes a thermal cracking model to predict low temperature performance (NCHRP, 2004).
Ars Magna, the software program that always answers in anagrams, has been giving some thought to the presidential election.
