Ramblings, opinions, and general meanderings from the Deep South

Tuesday, May 20, 2003

If you are interested in "personal confusers" you will eventually hack in some shape, form or fashion. Not necessarily in a malicious way, but to resolve some issue that cannot be handled by mainstream cures. Mike from Kentucky (one of those radical, die hard, big blue fans) is having trouble retrieving a password in Windows 2k. Well, there are ways.

http://www.codeproject.com/dll/pwdspy.asp?print=true

http://www.atstake.com/research/lc/

K, I know this last one works and it is not freeware, but can be downloaded and used for 15 day trial period. This is actually the old LOpht crew outta the Boston area in a "white hat" reincarnation. Super sharp ppl. This neat program actually attacks in a kewl way (passwords are stored as hashmarks or slashes). A simple password will be cracked in a short period of time. More complex passwords WILL take longer. Be patient. Please don't take these tools and do malicious things. If they are valuable to you then pay the fee. Hope this helps, Wildcat Mike. I spent two days after installing Linux Red Hat 8.0 mentally squeezing my weird, geek mind trying to remember the root password. Sitting at my Windows 2k machine listening to Frank Zappa the light bulb turned on! Before you ask - no it's not dynamo hum or yellow snow.

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