Brute-Force Tool CrackWhore: Enhancing Password Sharing Among Users

A brute-force password cracking program called CrackWhore written by our Dutch friend SubReality turns out to be clever for more than its name. The author has rigged it with a phone-home feature (which users can disable) that sends the password combos . . . A brute-force password cracking program called CrackWhore written by our Dutch friend SubReality turns out to be clever for more than its name. The author has rigged it with a phone-home feature (which users can disable) that sends the password combos and URLs of cracked sites to the SubReality.net Website in the form: .

Why is this clever, you ask? Because SR has also put together a little Perl script which automatically posts each new crack as a hyperlink on a page at his site, so that all CrackWhore users can share successful cracks among themselves simply by clicking on the relevant link.

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