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Cracking the passwords from the hashes is not just fast, it's ridiculously fast. I can't believe a site like LinkedIn stores their passwords this way in 2012.

  guesses: 11516  time: 0:00:21:36 0.00% (3)  c/s: 27126G  trying: aptewwod - aptewws1
That's plain old john the ripper running on the cheapest 13" 2010 mbp. John is not even using the GPU, and non-trivial 8-character passwords are scrolling by in my terminal, too fast to read.



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