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Exploiting Terrorists’ Passwords

SUMMARY

The SIGINT Forensics Lab discovered that computer disks seized by the government not only contain intelligence, but are also a "rich source of passwords and related information." Researchers created special tools and harvested "hundreds of thousands of occurrences of passwords," which they used to attack encrypted files.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Apr 08, 2004

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Feb 05, 2018