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Re:Hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s ma... by justsomeguy1 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:13PM (#20636717)
My friend did this with his neighbor's wifi (with their permission of course) just to see if he could. He got trial access to some super computers in the Google cloud (sorry I'm not more specific, just recollecting what he told me) and was able to crack with that horsepower in a day or so.
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Re:Hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s ma... by dijit on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:54PM (#20637113)
Your friend probably used the GPU enabled instances, which are absurdly efficient at generating WPA2 hashes.
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