At 04:13 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:42:27 -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> > I know people who are guessing their friends' passwords for email /
> > cell phone / etc all the time, too, which is just as much hacking as
> > Joe in finance accidentally disclosing the location of the Excel
> > file containing all of the employee records. :)
>
>I've been asked to "break in" to several friend's and client's
>computers who've lost/forgotten their passwords. I think in all but one
>case I've been successful. I'm not advocating cracking anyone's system,
>but a very handy utility for breaking passwords (OS and program/data
>file specific ones) is John the Ripper (http://www.openwall.com/john/)

Matt,

Would you really trust the (anonymous) author of a program designed 
to circumvent security by installing and running his/her software??? Not me::>

Who knows what the software really does::>

Art

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