• Sir. Haxalot@nord.pub
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    10 hours ago

    Is this actually practically achievable or mostly theoretical in a lab? Is it confirmed that the cops have actually managed to do this?

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      6 hours ago

      For password guessing they make clones of the computer so they can make countless instances of it to endlessly guess the password at the speed of dickheads to get around the systems cutting the guesser off after a number of attempts.