Pretty sure I used it in the early 2000s to get at Win2k passwords that were lost/forgotten. Took about an hour on a K6-III 450 ;).
Right? I think it was introduced at DefCon ~5. As I remember the introduction speech, Mudge got sick over a weekend and implemented it. Good times!
It's making me nostalgic for all of the old tools - what was another one, ``john''? Although that seems to have been modernised. https://www.openwall.com/john/
And of course, the CDC's hilarity toolbox: Back Orifice. Being able to eject all the CD-ROM drives in a computer lab together was really worth it.
God I miss those days. And now I feel old, like the father I thought I'd never be.
Nostalgic for an age that I thought was forever. But really, never was.
lol now i feel old. none of my co-workers know the name :-(
I used lophtcrack to get the windows admin password to the computer lab PCs in high school :)
Yep, and the password was 'driver'.
In my school's case it was 'passwd'. No cracking needed to obtain that one though, the admin had it written on a post-it on his monitor.
My school's domain admin password was 'school' (later changed to the school's name with O->0 substitution). It's marginally better than their VNC password though, which was 'vnc' (VNC Server was installed on every machine in the school).
Actually it was bhs-2020 still remember it after all these years
At my school the password was the person’s username. Someone guessed it one day. Which in hindsight was inevitable when the login screen was exposed to hundreds of bored kids every day.