fasterthanli.me - programming blog
So I just read a bunch of articles on an absolutely fantastic programming blog. I love finding these, they're like little treasures for me.
This one is called https://fasterthanli.me and it's by this author/programmer where the writing is patreon supported, so you know it's quality.
The articles I read were:
NTLM hashing in TV shows
Where the author, Amos, goes through the process of what a school hacker would have had to go through to crack a bunch of school passwords.
He assumes they'd be using some sort of Windows Server NT and proceeds to walk through: how to get the hash file, decrypting it, getting l0phtcr4ck to run on it, and trying to break the hash.
He also covered working with rainbow tables.
I felt a little thrill since I always kind of wanted to be a "high school hacker" character in high school, and when he used Ubuntu as live CD to steal the hash, I was like I also Kali-Linux Live- CD'd in my highschool!! although I couldn't steal the hashes.
On second thought, my school had auto-generated passwords! Which nobody changed. If I had a hash db, and a couple of lines of python boy it would have been lights out. We can dream.
A new website
In this post, Amos, walks through his making of a new static site generator just for him.
Personal note, I love these blog posts where the creator continues to make adjustments, finds errors, fixes/hacks something together and moves along. It's the hero's journey.