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Old 12-11-2012, 03:53 PM  
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
So it can do 350 billion guesses per second... But my computer can only done one request every five seconds. So there goes that idea.
They use vulnerabilities in the OS to directly access the encrypted password file on your machine. Your machine doesn't have to be able to process the requests at that speed.
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