Posted by stjames on August 17, 2003, at 19:06:46
In reply to Re: Posting in public places and cookies, posted by stjames on August 17, 2003, at 10:48:55
> I downloaded the win version and in the dir \run
> I saw john.exe. Did not check the DOS version. >
>
> I love John. It is written by a well know legit security admin. One of my first tasks at work was to
> crack the first ~5,000 users passwords from our ~20,000 user password file, so our billing system
> could suspend then for non-payment and then resore the original passwd if they paid. I ran into some issues with John and BSDi; DOS was too slow. I worked up my courage and e-mailed the person who wrote John and discovered he was really nice (coders sometimes are not very helpful)
>
> Thi storing of passwds as cookies is used everywhere and is a real bad idea. i was posting from an ex-friends house who was a wanntabe hacker. He remarked that I was leaving my passwd on his box as a cookie. He did try to post as me, what I pulled out of his web cache was quite nasty; a personal attack on me, the posters, and
> Dr Bob. However I had laready changed my passwd.
>
> He was picked up last week as he broke probation
> & was on a lam (I did not know this) and will be in the big house
> for quite some time. In a wonderful twist of fate,
> his panicked roommate asked me to take over his share in the house. So now I no longer have a 1.5 hour commute to work (each way) and my rent is less !!! The last 2.5 years have been very hard, as i am on the road 3 hours so i felt like I was working 12 hrs a day. With this expence i was trapped as I could not save first and last to move. The lack of sleep and stress has been slowly increasing my depression a little every day & I have had several minor breakdowns & was headed for a major one. Whew!b
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