alt Hacker NewsI must say, if I was writing a password cracker, I probably would not think to actually start at "1".
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jasomill • today at 8:36 PM
I don't know, when I run a password cracker, I always start with a brute force pass of very short passwords. Doing so adds a negligible amount of time to the crack, and its surprising how many short passwords you'll find in systems that permit them.
awesome_dude • today at 7:25 PM
Welp, there goes that password
Of course not, we start at negative zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero