Wow!
From Mark Frauenfelder ...Password-cracking software runs at 8 million guesses per second:
oclHashcat-plus is a 'password-recovery' tool that chews through 8-million guesses a second. It optimizes its guesses by trying phrases from 'the Bible, common literature, and in online discussions,’ and by formulating characters into websites' required 'password-construction protocols.'"
An example passphrase that was cracked:
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn1,”
Nick Bilton writing for the NY Times – The End of an Era in Mobile:
In the summer of 2007, Nokia was on top of the world. The company had a market valuation of around $120 billion, $10 billion more than Apple. Nokia’s share of the global smartphone market was an astounding 48.7 percent.
But by the third quarter of 2012 — just five years later — Nokia was worth a paltry $8.2 billion, $624 billion less than Apple, and its share of global smartphone sales had slipped to just 3.5 percent.
Take a look at the chart Bilton shares - scary!
