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Passwords alone can't protect your network
« Reply #165 on: January 18, 2011, 06:01:11 am »
Passwords alone can't protect your network
18 January 2011, 5:00 am

A German researcher's claim that he has found a way to leverage Amazon's EC2 service to crack wireless passwords raises an important question: Have passwords outlived their usefulness?

InfoWorld analyst Ted Samson reported this week that the researcher was able to use customized software running on multicomputer cloud system to crack wireless WPA preshared keys in as little as six minutes for a few dollars or less.

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