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Re:Ask HN: What is your failure story? by otohp on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:50PM (#19149328)
Me - a graduate student in a university. Looking around on all servers on the network and found a program called "crack". it was designed to reverse-engineer passwords given a unix passwd file. I thought, what the heck, let me see if I can get some gems. SO I used yppasswd to download all password hashes, and ran crack on it. Needless to say, sysadmin found out in a couple of days, and suspended my account for 2 weeks :(

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