How I became a password cracker

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: Mar 22 - Mar 29 Features How I became a password cracker by Nate Anderson At the beginning of a sunny Monday morning earlier this month, I had never cracked a password. By the end of the day, I had cracked 8,000. Even though I knew password cracking was easy, I didn't know it was ridiculously easy—well, ridiculously easy once I overcame the urge to bash my laptop with a sledgehammer and finally figured out what I was doing. Read More Ministry of Innovation After months of speculation, T-Mobile finally ditches cellphone contracts by Cyrus Farivar Read More Opposable Thumbs BioShock Infinite review: In the sky, Lord, in the sky by Kyle Orland The first thing I did after I finished BioShock Infinite was sit in front of the screen for a few minutes thinking about what I had just seen. The second thing I did after I finished BioShock Infinite was play the ending section a second time, to make sure I had understood what I saw the first time (turns out I hadn't). The third thing I did after I beat BioShock Infinite was try to sleep, but I instead spent the next few hours going over the whole game in my head, even though it was after 2:30 in the morning and I was flying out for the start of a PAX East/Game Developers Conference megatrip the next day. Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Ars chief Ken Fisher is getting Google Glass—you tell him how to use it Cloudy with a chance of video games: AMD announces “Radeon Sky” GPUs Bold asteroid-snatching plans to appear in NASA 2014 budget Verisign blasts ICANN for slow generic top-level domain name rollout Bump your stalking skills with custom geofences in Apple’s Find My Friends Sprint, Softbank to shun Chinese networking equipment Coast-to-coast solar plane flight set for May 1 Evernote’s Android app features an updated interface, new camera features Private collector builds Apple Pop-Up Museum to “tell the story of Apple” A new era of GPU benchmarking: Inside the second with Nvidia’s frame capture tools Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at garn14.tech@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.