Miroslav Suchý @mirek@rodina-sucha.cz

~=8 Character Passwords Are Dead=~

New benchmark from the Hashcat Team shows a 2080Ti GPU passing 100 Billion password guesses per second (NTLM hash).

This means that the entire keyspace, or every possible combination of:
- Upper
- Lower
- Number
- Symbol

...of an 8 character password can be guessed in:

~2.5 hours

(8x 2080Ti GPUs against NTLM Windows hash)

#Hacking #Infosec

A komu tim prospejete? https://www.root.cz/zpravicky/evropska-reforma-copyrightu-prosla-trialogem-vcetne-kontroverznich-clanku-11-a-13/

Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019

Nav gadgets will be Gah, Properly Screwed if you don't or can't update firmware

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/12/current_gps_epoch_ends/
#nerdy

Russia is planning to disconnect from the internet as part of an experiment https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-as-part-of-a-planned-test/

Here's a remainder no 85,234,567 as to why you shouldn't base your business around a product that depends on:

a.) Distribution via a proprietary app store where your livelihood depends on the mercy of #Apple / #Google

b.) Build your business around consuming 3rd party APIs (and maybe presenting them differently), thus being susceptible to the whims of all the parties you depend on. Encroach on their territory with a better product and THEY WILL shut you down.

https://blog.usejournal.com/google-wrongly-terminated-our-new-business-via-our-google-play-developer-account-5f5b7b742542

"Critics of the big tech companies are often told, 'If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.' I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple."

What happened when a reporter blocks blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple for a week.

Featuring:
- Onionshare
- Jitsi
- Purism laptop
- Nokia phone
- physical maps, calendar, and books
- cash

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

truly a GitHub classic: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1002

My blogpost on why #fediverse is starting to make sense to me (in Czech): https://blog.eischmann.cz/2019/01/07/fediverse-zacina-davat-smysl/