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How Egyptian police quickly cracked journalist’s computer password
How Egyptian police quickly cracked journalist’s computer password
According to Mike Giglio, a NewsWeek correspondent, Egyptian police got hold of his laptop during his coverage of the latest Egyptian protest in Tahrir Square against the ousting of Mohammed Morsi, cracking his password protected computer on the street to check what was inside, with just a few seconds of time and very little cost in terms of software and training. See below screenshot of Mike Giglio Twitter account explaining Egyptian police password cracking quick method: http://www.hacker10.com/wp-content/u...king-Egypt.jpg |
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Yep, nothing ever beats rubber-hose cryptanalysis (pun intended)
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Well, here's the deal in a nutshell, folks. Changed jobs around 2007, and it was mostly Linux, and I had less time. Recently changed jobs again, and a great deal of it deals with FreeBSD, so I'm slowly easing back.
So, you'll see me from time to time, both here and on the FreeBSD forums--I think I actually answered one of Rod's posts there, and was going to add a wave, but feared no one would remember who I was. |
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I do remember you from here and the old BSDForums.org
Good luck with your job, by the way.
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So is that what they call a bruto force attack?
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Unsocial engineering
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yes
and a correction to my post above: bruto = brute |
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