<OT> Nice windows tool...

[Jerry McBride]

I was handed a copy of CAIN 2.0 today. And boy was I surprised....

Cain is a wonderful little (fits on a floppy) windows utility that will
show you all the passwords on a target windows computer. All you need do
is slip the floppy in the drive, explore it, click on cane.exe and
bingo... with in minutes it will show you all the passwords that the
user(s) have set on their desktop. For the really hard passwords, there's
a "brute force" attack that can be performed in ferreting the passwords
out of the target... It'll even snoop the smb stream and grab your samba
passwords too. So far it's cracked all the 98 machines at work... The
longest time it took was less than 2 minutes to figure out a really tough
8 character password. Most of the "attacks" were instantaneous. 

It's hard to believe that a whole industry relies on such garbage as
windows. Truly amazing.



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