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A comment on Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week?.

Re:Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercom... by qhoxie on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @01:52AM (#331984)
I would secure access for longer than a week:

./john /etc/shadow

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercom... by richcollins on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @03:14AM (#332026)
Only today I heard a story from a friend about a lab assistant he worked with that did just that in the early nineties. The only mistake he made was calling the executable "password-cracker".
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