Mellon (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

I mean, the key could have just been picked randomly! And the other one too. And the other one, too.

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[–] 50 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

A friend of mine back in 2005 cloned a school computer's drive to his iPod, took it home, and brute forced the admin password using rainbow tables on his gaming PC.

It was Admin_2000, and it was shared by every computer in the school district.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    How the fuck do you clone a hard drive to an iPod that'd be like storing an airplane in a shipping container.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Lol, it was 2005 dude. My laptop at the time had a 20 gig hard drive and iPods went as high as 160gb.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    IPods can extract disk images? Or did they just store it on the iPod?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Reminds me of a story from my mom's childhood: growing up in the 50s far out in the country, people having telephones was somewhat of a rarity, so the numbers were quite short.

    "How short?", you ask?

    The telephone number of the local butcher was "1".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Had access to educational system's database that didnt use hashing. Can confirm. Something oblivious, plus optional underscore, then current year is a very common password pattern among boomers.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Thanks, but I read all of it and I still don't understand what it has to do with "Mellon" and "4"

    ELI5?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    One of the private keys was just β€œ4”. This is basically the certificate authority’s master password, which allows them to securely sign their certificates. It is supposed to be hilariously long and complex, to make brute-forcing it virtually impossible. And it was just… 4.

    Not sure where Mellon comes into play though.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    It would be infinitely funny if something similar is found in bitcoin

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