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Originally Posted by punkworld
You people give most crackers waaay too much credit. Most simply download a simple brute forcing program, a proxy list and (un/pw) dictionary lists, and they're all set to go. Cracking can be done without knowing anything about computers.
Of course, the username/password dictionaries were gathered by others, from other sites, often years ago, but since people are predictable, combo's work again and again and again. (qwerty:asdfgh, james:bond, username:password, etc.)
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Notice I said hackers, not crackers... And yes, MOST do get off the shelf (so to speak) software and download their lists from forums. But when I started playing around myself 7 years ago there were a handful of people cracking websites and even less hacking them... Now the percentages are still the same (hackers to crackers) but there are more of each...
In 2003 I'd say there were about 10 to 20 people who could hack a server worth a damn and now there are 100 to 200... And so many people make it so fucking easy that once you have 5000 password files you just get bored...