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Re:Hashcat v6.2.6 benchmark on the Nvidia RTX 4090 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:40AM (#35784848)
md5 was never supposed to even be used for passwords, it was designed to produce really fast checksums for files, a very bad property for a password hashing algorithm
Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:31AM (#35784797)
Only a single-digit percentage of bruteforcin and scanning attempts gets to our servers once we blocked China and Russia. Going by pure volume they're overwhelmingly overrepresented. I don't know about attack quality, I just assume sophisticated attacks could originate from anywhere, so I just pick the lowest hanging fruit
Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:28AM (#35784785)
I'm not sure meta comments about comment quality do either