Dear Facebook: your privacy sucks

Sick of having its users ask what’s wrong with Facebook privacy, security vendor Sophos has taken its concerns public in <a href="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/04/18/facebook-open-letter/">this</a> open letter.<br /><br />It may well be restating things that intelligent and informed users could already have worked out for themselves, but Sophos’ complaint adds to public concerns raised by credible sources.<br /><br />Sophos’ letter suggests Facebook adopt three basic principles in its handling of user information: decent default privacy, vetting of application developers, and HTTPS not as an option, but as a default for all access*.<br /><br />When adding new information-sharing features, Sophos says, the popular social site should not assume that users want these features defaulting to “on”.<br /><br />As to application developers, Sophos is harsher in its terminology. Because it has more than a million un-vetted application developers, the letter calls the Facebook apps market “riddled with rogue applications and viral scams”.<br /><br />Sophos ends with a call to action, asking Facebook when it plans to act – or if, perhaps, it intends to leave action until its hand is forced by regulators. Perhaps optimistically, Sophos seems to think that Facebook might recognize a “greater good” that isn’t its own. ®<br /><br />*Mind you, Sophos didn't think to put its own open letter on an HTTPS connection. The open letter says HTTPS should be enforced "all the time, by default".

Dear Facebook: your privacy sucks

Sick of having its users ask what’s wrong with Facebook privacy, security vendor Sophos has taken its concerns public in this open letter. ...

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Facebook Hack Tricks & Tips To Use Facebook as a Pro

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaqchigyz3zb42ox_x8VwawJZjwOdEsjGgmy5QmtC5m-_BM-yeZSMU2HPOGcr5op8zXZ_dwASnhe2ocGBqwTeVzkK1QXIXOQX1xmL3zVBHyrkNG3udmcHSzY0O9EH5F8c2xWiZRUodSk/s1600/pirateflag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaqchigyz3zb42ox_x8VwawJZjwOdEsjGgmy5QmtC5m-_BM-yeZSMU2HPOGcr5op8zXZ_dwASnhe2ocGBqwTeVzkK1QXIXOQX1xmL3zVBHyrkNG3udmcHSzY0O9EH5F8c2xWiZRUodSk/s1600/pirateflag.jpg" /></a></div>The very first thing I should mention is that when it comes to <b>Facebook Hacks</b>, Facebook rules changes so often that one<b> Facebook Tricks or hacks</b> could possibly work today but will likely not work tommorow.<br /><br />Facebook Engineers changes features at whim - and you will be left trying to guess what is coming next and why your link or plug-in no longer works.<br /><br />All the same i will be sharing this <b>Facebook Tricks</b>, you can call it what ever(Hacks, Nonsense...whatever) but this <b>Facebook Hacks and tricks</b> were working as at the time i was writing this post, so there is possibility that it won't work for you if Facebook team has changed the rule. You never can tell you might be lucky so i urge you to try this Facebook Tricks and hacks and let me know how your experience with it was so far.<br /><h3><b>#1 – The Konami Code Lens Flare Hack</b></h3><br />This is a rather silly hack, but if you’re visiting friends who may not be very computer savvy – this is a very easy way to impress them with your hacking skills. Borrow their computer (or bring your laptop), log into your Facebook account, and then on the computer keyboard just type the following key sequence of arrows and letters <i>exactly</i>: UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A-<enter></enter><br /><br />Then, click around on your Facebook page, or scroll up and down the page (this seems to work best), and you’ll discover a pretty cool display of lens flare effects.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIYeJCr-vOfjUgbkHHPJxcoCct_U1X7ynBUA7hJU76rFhWE8QjBjbWh9sFFDfVSlUoYtKVRK3PxJ4crt3KEkupbhxliTZXdiL-qbkswKOBAaJGYHXuYF48pzGYx36e9B9YB7q0mJYWi9Q/s1600/flares.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIYeJCr-vOfjUgbkHHPJxcoCct_U1X7ynBUA7hJU76rFhWE8QjBjbWh9sFFDfVSlUoYtKVRK3PxJ4crt3KEkupbhxliTZXdiL-qbkswKOBAaJGYHXuYF48pzGYx36e9B9YB7q0mJYWi9Q/s1600/flares.jpg" /></a></div><br />Oddly, the effect isn’t horribly annoying because it disappears pretty quickly when you really need it to. It isn’t the most impressive hack though, because it’s probably the most common one mentioned across the net – but it’s still kind of cool and fun to play around with.<br /><h3><b>#2 – Aye, Make Yer Profile a Pirate’s Page You Landlubber!</b></h3>The second profile hack is also one of the easiest to implement. Facebook offers users the ability to transform their Facebook pages into any language that they like. If you scroll down to the lower left corner of your profile page, you’ll see your current language setting. Click on this, and you’ll have a list of all languages available to you. Notice the English Pirate option?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqFyvWT3QQNrtxqWah4xZz6Y1lMGtujWi2eFnlwGRtGVC3dUMVx_JpzeCpjqLhVbEU25q64pyvqa4YzCpJufBqEgtzmKmhJmDN3l8ezjhY5hxu6EZytxzXNmaRhZh_C0Ne4_M5mtmuFM/s1600/pirate2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytAOUyWD5NIrPoEzWzvhcm23vmlSzDO0Wrle3iodkslVeNJ7b2HrsyK6JxreYYO3V2l39KjJvJ3Iopgc0xEQ8dlvCP1tNcd-wRuuCWIDwDKF-RQ5dAmP6CPDRRWnIAk3vsnGOzjKBA5k/s1600/pirate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytAOUyWD5NIrPoEzWzvhcm23vmlSzDO0Wrle3iodkslVeNJ7b2HrsyK6JxreYYO3V2l39KjJvJ3Iopgc0xEQ8dlvCP1tNcd-wRuuCWIDwDKF-RQ5dAmP6CPDRRWnIAk3vsnGOzjKBA5k/s1600/pirate.jpg" /></a></div><br />Ahoy matey – yer now a Cap’n! Now as you go through your profile page you’ll notice some pretty hilarious pirate variations.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqFyvWT3QQNrtxqWah4xZz6Y1lMGtujWi2eFnlwGRtGVC3dUMVx_JpzeCpjqLhVbEU25q64pyvqa4YzCpJufBqEgtzmKmhJmDN3l8ezjhY5hxu6EZytxzXNmaRhZh_C0Ne4_M5mtmuFM/s1600/pirate2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqFyvWT3QQNrtxqWah4xZz6Y1lMGtujWi2eFnlwGRtGVC3dUMVx_JpzeCpjqLhVbEU25q64pyvqa4YzCpJufBqEgtzmKmhJmDN3l8ezjhY5hxu6EZytxzXNmaRhZh_C0Ne4_M5mtmuFM/s1600/pirate2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Now, the wall is the Plank, your profile is the Cap’n's Log, and you can now either click a post as pleasin’ to me eye (like) or blabber t’yer mates (comment).  It certainly removes the “boring” factor from your old standard Facebook pages.<br /><h3><b>#3 – Upside Down Status Updates</b></h3>If you’ve been on Facebook long enough, you’ve probably noticed a few people posting upside down status updates. They sure do think they’re clever don’t they?!  Yes, you too can be the envy of all of your friends and family by posting your updates so that people have to look silly by tilting their heads upside down so they can read it.<br /><br />Most of the people you’ve seen doing this have likely installed a Facebook app just to do so. However, I dislike installing apps because you always have to provide permissions to those applications to access your profile. A better approach is to use the free online application at <a href="http://www.fliptext.org/">FlipText</a> to generate your upside down status update.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXS5QItNZnAc6a2fEfITQZwP9RwQGwQQrW_2sTNRrprXhfbs8aTQeVAFenO4YOStjnpafbaURxiZBwMmRnpGzTWMKoF3xMSC8AdcVJsYQDydeuDuRK2Di-WfZ73qUAUm2TSVzdR8ln-Lk/s1600/upsidedown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXS5QItNZnAc6a2fEfITQZwP9RwQGwQQrW_2sTNRrprXhfbs8aTQeVAFenO4YOStjnpafbaURxiZBwMmRnpGzTWMKoF3xMSC8AdcVJsYQDydeuDuRK2Di-WfZ73qUAUm2TSVzdR8ln-Lk/s1600/upsidedown.jpg" /></a></div><br />Simply copy the upside down text from the lower text box, paste it into your Facebook status box and post!<br /><h3><b>#4 – Download Complete Photo Collections From Your Friends’ Profiles</b></h3>If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, you may not have the time to keep up with all of the new family photos they’ve posted – but you are very interested in them and would love to have them stored in your own private photo collection to review later. Well, thanks to a very cool FireFox plug-in called <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8442">FacePAD</a>, you can do just that. The add-on is awesome, and I would recommend that anyone with the resources to do so should send in a contribution to <a href="http://www.lazyrussian.com/">Arthur Sabintsev</a> for his efforts.<br /><br />After you install the FacePad plug-in, make sure you select <i>Tools->Add-Ons</i>, and configure the options for FacePad so it has your correct Facebook language. Then, all you have to do is go to your friend’s photo albums, right-click on the title and select “Download Album With FacePAD.”  That’s right, you’re not downloading a single picture – but an entire <i>album</i>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsl-Qa61oeXmBW6_X5XC2YB-38Wr5ENEeCGuoZZVNbD8aLYlhilXpakbJ2ZqMfcW-ohiJA9YGasXuCngZXuBbfVTdDJmKeJqXaC4dNY5OzbKg9G0Q7NUgwFqCT4_au86_LFFhMaD65DRY/s1600/facepad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsl-Qa61oeXmBW6_X5XC2YB-38Wr5ENEeCGuoZZVNbD8aLYlhilXpakbJ2ZqMfcW-ohiJA9YGasXuCngZXuBbfVTdDJmKeJqXaC4dNY5OzbKg9G0Q7NUgwFqCT4_au86_LFFhMaD65DRY/s1600/facepad.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Once you do, FacePad downloads every single image within that album into the download folder you’ve configured in FireFox. Don’t forget to organize all of those photos using <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/im-processing-my-photo-on-a-jet-plane/">JetPhoto</a>, as recommended earlier by Jeffry.<br /><h3><b>#5 – Schedule Facebook Status Updates With Sendible</b></h3>Do you like to keep your Facebook profile active, but you’re coming down with a cold and may be offline for a few days?  Maybe you’re taking a trip and won’t be anywhere near a computer for a week. Or maybe you’ll be playing hooky from work and traveling, but you want your colleagues and boss to think you’re stuck at home sick. Accomplish any of these wishes by using <a href="http://sendible.com/">Sendible</a> to schedule your Facebook status updates. This is an application Daniel covered earlier, so check out <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/schedule-and-manage-your-messages-with-sendible/">his article</a> for more details.<br />But for Facebook specifically, once you sign up with Sendible, just click on Facebook and provide your Facebook login details. Sendible connects directly with your Facebook account. The, under “<i>New Messages</i>” click on “<i>Status Updates</i>“.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiE7rhEUhxZaVqKO_HyFEJqxAlvneWjX4OUTX_cN7v3DuXxdCyjKcxK0KTeblRA1cxHop_n29cUYPu1c-uPg4uMlGzeunPa6jEJ-Nuwu3DgHm29LC9jbPPrhIrcPGOksHOXWYG1Ql4a4/s1600/sendible2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiE7rhEUhxZaVqKO_HyFEJqxAlvneWjX4OUTX_cN7v3DuXxdCyjKcxK0KTeblRA1cxHop_n29cUYPu1c-uPg4uMlGzeunPa6jEJ-Nuwu3DgHm29LC9jbPPrhIrcPGOksHOXWYG1Ql4a4/s1600/sendible2.jpg" /></a></div><br />On the next page you can schedule out as many updates as you’d like! This service is awesome – and you can distribute scheduled updates to a number of social networks including MySpace, Blogger, Twitter and more.<br /><h3><b>#6 – Hide Your Online Status From Certain People</b></h3>Look, don’t feel bad about it. When I first joined Facebook I left my online status wide open. After a couple of weeks of getting inundated with nonstop chat requests, I simply turned off my online status completely. Problem solved. Except, there really were <i>certain</i> people I wouldn’t mind hearing from – is it really fair for a few chatterbox buddies to ruin your chances for communicating with everyone? Well, <i>there is a way</i> for you to selectively block your online status from certain people.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXgy5sLjgc7B6fQTT0NDWxFXBGLdJBDc14nqL8X5mrI89gvV1kMqXnkzVWPiDGARhq4Fo3Eq0lE9gGzYjLxDP5cKhDK05c3xiuDUdJ0_xkLjslvWpcKtIMLpUHHOgHXQaOhK1MDZwcAs/s1600/block1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXgy5sLjgc7B6fQTT0NDWxFXBGLdJBDc14nqL8X5mrI89gvV1kMqXnkzVWPiDGARhq4Fo3Eq0lE9gGzYjLxDP5cKhDK05c3xiuDUdJ0_xkLjslvWpcKtIMLpUHHOgHXQaOhK1MDZwcAs/s1600/block1.jpg" /></a></div>  <br />All you have to do is open up your chat icon in the lower right corner of your Facebook display, click on <i>Friend Lists</i>, and create a new list called “<i>BlockList</i>.” Make sure after you create it that it’s configured under “<i>Display these lists in Chat</i>.”<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvzA7L3uOiqdrdoC8nkmeBzfUBNpDXve-3h_eXSTvXiMhJy2XV7HeQSpkByUrLFKTAES4DogHmnWTERIBJB80lsbuXkXLjvskWcuOIROihijGF2IuU8d1Vu9f2RJcD2d5Jb0elNgMaBg/s1600/block3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvzA7L3uOiqdrdoC8nkmeBzfUBNpDXve-3h_eXSTvXiMhJy2XV7HeQSpkByUrLFKTAES4DogHmnWTERIBJB80lsbuXkXLjvskWcuOIROihijGF2IuU8d1Vu9f2RJcD2d5Jb0elNgMaBg/s1600/block3.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Now, all you have to do is either click “<i>edit</i>” and add the friends you want to block, or if they’re already online, just click their name and drag them under this new list. Once you’ve got everyone there who you want to block from see your online status, hover your mouse over the green dot to the right and click on “<i>Go Offline</i>.” Now, you appear offline to only those <i>certain</i> friends.<br /><br />Facebook, unlike MySpace, is not really easy to tweak – which is actually a good thing. Gone are the days of those horrid eye-bleeding pages with pink flashing backgrounds and instant music that you can’t turn off. However, the tweaks and plug-ins in the list above offer at least a few ways to customize your Facebook account and usage to suit your life and your personality.<br /><br />How do you use Facebook? Are there any hacks, tricks, tips or add-ons not offered here that you especially like to use? Share them in the comments section.

Facebook Hack Tricks & Tips To Use Facebook as a Pro

The very first thing I should mention is that when it comes to Facebook Hacks , Facebook rules changes so often that one Facebook Tricks or...

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Best Collections of Rapidshare Tools and Tricks

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjWOnl97w4IrK81b_nAbR5j7fWO02ipqpfpcYFgR1Ze61cjHFJJMK9UlsrvIgBzxxKUbU2Oj5YaaTdn12IavDuulbsvcYASsNzV0TKDOrnOaHFXIlMXMzPULty5_P4Q6IUoN41uFSx73w/s1600/rapidshare1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="55" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjWOnl97w4IrK81b_nAbR5j7fWO02ipqpfpcYFgR1Ze61cjHFJJMK9UlsrvIgBzxxKUbU2Oj5YaaTdn12IavDuulbsvcYASsNzV0TKDOrnOaHFXIlMXMzPULty5_P4Q6IUoN41uFSx73w/s320/rapidshare1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Rapidshare is world’s biggest file storage/sharing network and one of the most trafficked websites on the web. With it’s enormous file database (ebooks, software, audio,video, etc…) it became highly popular download destination. In this article you’ll find bunch of handy tips and tools(download managers and accelerators,search engines,how to get premium account, etc) designed for rapidshare users<br /><br /><b>1. Free Download Managers & Accelerators </b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.orbitdownloader.com/">OrbitDownloader</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rapget.com/en/index.htm">Rapget</a></li><li><a href="http://www.download.com/Download-Accelerator-Plus/3000-2071_4-10590647.html?tag=lst-0-2">SpeedBit </a></li><li><a href="http://www.download.com/Internet-Download-Accelerator/3000-2071_4-10610712.html?tag=lst-0-3">West Byte Software</a></li></ul><b> 2. Rapidshare Search Engines </b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.rapidfox.net/index.php">Rapidfox</a></li><li><a href="http://www.shareminer.com/">Shareminer</a></li><li><a href="http://peer2link.com/index2.php">Peer2link</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rapidsharefiles.net/">Rapidsharefiles</a>(has a desktop version as well)</li><li><a href="http://www.rapidsearch.org/">Rapidsearch</a></li><li><a href="http://www.funfail.com/">Funfail</a></li><li><a href="http://filesbot.com/">Filesbot</a></li><li><a href="http://probble.com/index.php">Probble</a></li></ul><br /><b>3. Free Premium Account Notifier </b><br /><a href="http://d.freewarelist.net/488999"> </a><a href="http://d.freewarelist.net/488999">RapidCheck</a>: Once in a while rapidshare gives away free premium accounts on ‘first come first served’ basis. Unless you’re extremely lucky fellow, you can only get one if you’re using some kind of monitoring software that automatically checks for premium accounts promo on specified time intervals and lets you know as soon as it’s detected. Rapidcheck is one of such tools and it’s completely free.<br /><a href="http://d.freewarelist.net/488999"> </a><br /><br /><ul><li>tech-recipes.com – <a href="http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/869/rapidshare_hacks_beat_download_limits_waiting_time">Hacks to Beat Rapidshare Download Limits and Waiting Time</a></li><li>sr-ultimate.com – <a href="http://www.sr-ultimate.com/2005/05/26/google-rapidshare-hacks/">Google & Rapidshare Hacks : Rapidshare Tricks, Megaupload, Yousendit Hacks, Crack Rapidshare.de</a></li><li>readyouth.blogspot.com – <a href="http://readyouth.blogspot.com/2005/03/simultaneous-downloads-with-rapidshare.html">Simultaneous Downloads with Rapidshare</a></li><li>Namhuy.org – <a href="http://namhuy.org/2006/11/03/hacks-to-beat-rapidshare-download-limits-and-waiting-time/">Hacks to Beat Rapidshare Download Limits and Waiting Time</a></li><li>Ghacks.net – <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/29/rapidshare-hacks-downloads-tools-and-searches/">Rapidshare Hacks, Downloads, Tools and Searches</a></li></ul><br /><a href="http://d.freewarelist.net/488999"> </a>

Best Collections of Rapidshare Tools and Tricks

Rapidshare is world’s biggest file storage/sharing network and one of the most trafficked websites on the web. With it’s enormous file datab...

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Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifxA0Fdya_uPzz4g_WKEbEK7DdNZF8HrDlyq3ez5MYhXWkNGSf7BK_jOaj1OEKOX83IIiGrpQ0VkYhQTAEouqIa8lenuTKoWKX2SMdpgSZ73CLjMm9D4WF7SI0z7jeXb3dz_BscYOGP6s/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifxA0Fdya_uPzz4g_WKEbEK7DdNZF8HrDlyq3ez5MYhXWkNGSf7BK_jOaj1OEKOX83IIiGrpQ0VkYhQTAEouqIa8lenuTKoWKX2SMdpgSZ73CLjMm9D4WF7SI0z7jeXb3dz_BscYOGP6s/s1600/images.jpeg" /></a></div><b>What is RainbowCrack & Rainbow Tables?</b><br /><br />RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique.<br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">In 1980 Martin Hellman described a cryptanalytic time-memory trade-off which reduces the time of cryptanalysis by using precalculated data stored in memory. This technique was improved by Rivest before 1982 with the introduction of distinguished points which drastically reduces the number of memory lookups during cryptanalysis. This improved technique has been studied extensively but no new optimisations have been published ever since.</span><br /><br />You can find the official Rainbowcrack project <a href="http://www.project-rainbowcrack.com/">here</a>, where you can download the latest version of Rainbowcrack.<br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called “rainbow table”.</span><br /><br />Basically these types of password crackers are working with pre-calculated hashes of ALL passwords available within a certain character space, be that a-z or a-zA-z or a-zA-Z0-9 etc.<br /><br />These files are called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table">Rainbow Tables</a>.<br /><br />You are trading speed for memory and disk space, the Rainbow Tables can be VERY large.<br /><br />Be warned though, Rainbow tables can be defeated by salted hashes, if the hashes are not salted however and you have the correct table, a complex password can be cracked in a few minutes rather than a few weeks or months with traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force_attack">brute forcing techniques</a>.<br /><br /><b>So where do I get these Rainbow Tables?</b><br /><br />You can generate them yourself with RainbowCrack, this will take a long time, and a lot of diskspace.<br /><br />Project Shmoo is offering downloads of popular Rainbow Tables via <a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/">BitTorrent</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://rainbowtables.shmoo.com/">http://rainbowtables.shmoo.com/</a><br /><br />If you wanted to, you could even buy the tables from <a href="http://www.rainbowtables.net/">http://www.rainbowtables.net/</a>.<br /><br />Or these guys, not free but cheap <a href="http://www.rainbowcrack-online.com/">http://www.rainbowcrack-online.com/</a><br /><br />Some free tables here <a href="http://wired.s6n.com/files/jathias/index.html">http://wired.s6n.com/files/jathias/index.html</a><br /><br /><b>What software is available for use with Rainbow Tables?</b><br /><br />There is of course the original RainbowCrack as mentioned above.<br /><br />Then there is:<br /><br /><a href="http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/">Ophcrack</a><br /><br /><b style="color: #666666;">Ophcrack </b><span style="color: #666666;">is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.oxid.it/cain.html">Cain and Abel</a> (newly added support for Rainbow Tables)<br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Cain & Abel</b> is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. </span><br /><br /><i><b>Cain and Abel is personally my favourite fully featured password whacking tool, it also has a good packet sniffer, which grabs and decodes passwords and many methods for password cracking. The interface is decent too. I’ll write more on how to get the most out of Cain later.</b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.l0phtcrack.com/">L0phtcrack or LC5</a><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><b>LC5</b> is the latest version of L0phtCrack, the award-winning password auditing and recovery application used by thousands of companies worldwide.</span><br /><br /><i><b>Please note this is a COMMERCIAL product.</b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lcpsoft.com/english/index.htm">LCP</a><br /><br />Main purpose of LCP program is user account passwords auditing and recovery in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003<br /><br />Thankfully there is a freeware alternative to LC5 in the form of LCP.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rainbowcrack.com/">http://www.rainbowcrack.com/</a><br /><a href="http://sarcaprj.wayreth.eu.org/">http://sarcaprj.wayreth.eu.org/</a><br /><a href="http://passcracking.com/">http://passcracking.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.md5lookup.com/">http://www.md5lookup.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.plain-text.info/">http://www.plain-text.info/</a><br /><a href="http://ap0x.headcoders.net/xHashBrutter.rar">http://ap0x.headcoders.net/xHashBrutter.rar</a><br /><a href="http://www.loginrecovery.com/">http://www.loginrecovery.com/</a>

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