Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system

Re:Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on... by e12e on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:48PM (#16074372)

I don't know. Cracking passwords using A SUPERCOMPUTER FROM THE FUTURE, seems plenty worthy of some decent theme music...

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Re:Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on... by vidarh on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:58AM (#16077667)

Fits right into Kung Fury [1] - a parody/homage of 80's movies that includes time travel and Hackerman... And a dinosaur, vikings and nazis and David Hasselhoff. It's as bad as it sounds, but in a good way. They fit an impressive amount of 80's movie tropes into 30 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg&t=1306s

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Re:Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on... by ASalazarMX on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:47PM (#16075195)

I hope he ran the Hollywood script while the password cracker ran modestly in the background

https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood

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