This article from the Seattle Times starts off like this:

A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI’s classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI Director Robert Mueller.

I’m not sure if everyone is aware of how easy Rainbow Tables are to implement against Windows networks. Ophcrack 2 is a quite speedy implementation using Rainbow Tables to quickly crack Windows network passwords. Try it against your network, you might be surprised.

Yawn… yet another argument against passwords and for the use of stronger authentication mechanisms.

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