<OT> Nice windows tool...

[Net Llama]

--- Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.

In fairness to M$, the passwords used on anything before W2K weren't
encrypted in any real way.  Can this thing crack a kerberos password on
W2K or XP?

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