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.
How the fuck do you clone a hard drive to an iPod that’d be like storing an airplane in a shipping container.
Lol, it was 2005 dude. My laptop at the time had a 20 gig hard drive and iPods went as high as 160gb.
IPods can extract disk images? Or did they just store it on the iPod?
Stored it on the iPod. Think he booted to a live CD to copy it over.
Oh yeah that makes sense. I used to do that (store files on iPod) sometimes.
It would be infinitely funny if something similar is found in bitcoin
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”.
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.
I don’t get it.
Thanks, but I read all of it and I still don’t understand what it has to do with “Mellon” and “4”
ELI5?
One of the private keys was just “4”. 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.
Isn’t it the password for the Moria in LOTR ? And a pretty simple one ?
Yeah, the “riddle” is “speak friend and enter” and it turns out that all you have to do is say “friend” in Sindarin (Grey-Elven), which is “mellon”
