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How real is the threat of being hacked when gaming?
xShadow:
I'm surprised no one has jumped at this...
--- Quote from: kitamesume on March 28, 2013, 01:53:09 PM ---"sis" is a common slang, too common. the rest i don't know, i don't hack myself so yeah.
gpu accelerated rigs today can guess at a phase of over 1,000,000/sec, with a dictionary attack containing a billion words it'd take it 1000seconds to finish each word at worst case scenario.
so with a 4word max at 1000seconds each that'd take 4000seconds, less than a day.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/
to put things on a neutral here, i'm saying that don't build your password entirely out of words.
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I don't think probability works that way. You have a branch for each one of those words in the dictionary at each step. You could only do a straight multiplication of that maximum time if you had per-word verification. Which you do not if you're trying to brute force.
So instead of 4*1000 seconds, it would be 1000⁴ seconds. Note that is not expected time or any kind of mean time, but worst case scenario time. Still staggering, either way.
It has been a while since my statistics class but I believe that is how it works.
Edit: Also any punctuation between words would fuck that time over hard.
Edit2:actually that assumes you know that there are 4 words in the pw in the first place. I think it would actually be 1000±1000²+1000³+1000⁴ seconds.
kitamesume:
yeah i figured something was off.
but that only applies to pure word passwords, they do exists since there are people with simplistic minds :D
Slysoft:
How could someone hack you just by knowing your screen name on an online game? Most of those guys are skids anyway so they can only hack if it involves a tool with a start button.
Tiffanys:
For video games you just copy the password from LastPass. You don't need to remember it. You could also use something like Password Safe which can enter it in the game client for you automatically.
Assuming you're using LastPass though, you could also just download LastPass Pocket and make an encrypted offline backup of your LastPass database and then just right click and copy your password to clipboard then paste it in the game client then close LastPass. Though to be honest, you could do that even with the online version.
Xycolian2332:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 29, 2013, 02:12:19 AM ---For video games you just copy the password from LastPass. You don't need to remember it. You could also use something like Password Safe which can enter it in the game client for you automatically.
Assuming you're using LastPass though, you could also just download LastPass Pocket and make an encrypted offline backup of your LastPass database and then just right click and copy your password to clipboard then paste it in the game client then close LastPass. Though to be honest, you could do that even with the online version.
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I'm not that knowledgeable on keyloggers, but I'm sure it's easy enough for them to record logs for everything that went through the clipboard?
So essentially, if you were phished into going to some stupid site, and they installed a keylogger on your comp you're pretty much boned
Someone who knows more about those kind of programs feel free to contradict me.
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