How Hackers Really Crack Your Passwords
How do computer hackers figure out our passwords? Learn about the techniques they use to crack the codes, and what systems protect us. Building Digital Labyrinths To Hide Your Password -...
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In movies, hacking is all finesse, excitement, and genius coding, but in reality it's angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. -- Ginsberg. Hey there Zero Cools, Neos and Seatec astronomers, I'm Trace. Thanks for tuning in for some DNews. Passwords are like apples in a fictional garden, they're perfect, ripe, and there for the taking, if you know how. Websites have a lot of different ways to store passwords, hashing, salting, tokens, two-factor authentication -- we have a whole video about it -- but hacking a password? That's a lot more fun, right? So first, for n00bs, passwords aren't stored as words, but as a set of encrypted characters called hashes. They look lik...
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In movies, hacking is all finesse, excitement, and genius coding, but in reality it's angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. -- Ginsberg. Hey there Zero Cools, Neos and Seatec astronomers, I'm Trace. Thanks for tuning in for some DNews. Passwords are like apples in a fictional garden, they're perfect, ripe, and there for the taking, if you know how. Websites have a lot of different ways to store passwords, hashing, salting, tokens, two-factor authentication -- we have a whole video about it -- but hacking a password? That's a lot more fun, right? So first, for n00bs, passwords aren't stored as words, but as a set of encrypted characters called hashes. They look lik...
