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Re:Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on... by kalleboo on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:33PM (#16076026)
My high school in the late 90's similarly handed out passwords all composed of 8 (or was it 6?) numbers. Combined with Windows 98's weak hashing (was it LanMan back then?), Cain & Abel on contemporary hardware could reveal them in seconds.
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