If the password is not random, as they seldomly are, you can just guess the last, or even the last few characters of they are not correct.
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Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 months agoThe problems is that even with up to 95% accuracy that still means the with a password length of 10 there is a 50/50 chance that one character is wrong.
A password with one character wrong is just as useless as randomly typing.
This is an interesting academic exercise but there are much better and easier ways to gain access to passwords and systems.
The world is not a bond movie.
Deploying social engineering is much easier than this sort of attack.
0xD@infosec.pub 9 months ago
prole@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The world is not a bond movie.
Deploying social engineering is much easier than this sort of attack.
Have you never seen a Bond movie? Yeah they always have a gadget or two, but the rest is basically him social engineering his way through the film.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was thinking of this attack in terms of grabbing emails, documents, stuff like that. Or snippets thereof.
warrenson@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
“Hearing” the same password twice drastically increases the accuracy, however, social engineering is indeed the most effective and efficient attack method.