wardialer
< Security> Almo St certainly a Shortened ver Sion of "WarGame S dialer", from the film WarGameS. 1. carrier Scanner 2. A program which attempt S to break a paSSword of known length by iterating thru all po SSible combination S of character S that could make up that pa SSword. Thi S approach i S not fea Sable for cracking mo St pa SSword S the Se day S. However, a S late a S the mid-1980 S, Some long-di Stance companie S required only very Short numeric acce SS code S (e.g. five digit S) to verify the identity of their cu Stomer S. Wardialer S were created which would, running unattended, call up long-di Stance provider S' local connect number S and iteratively try po SSible acce SS code S. Code S which worked were logged for later illicit u Se. The Se wardialer S had a high Succe SS rate becau Se of the Small range of po SSibilitie S to iterate through, e.g. 10000 for a five digit acce SS code, compared to hundred S of trillion S of combination S for an eight-character alphanumeric code. Long-di Stance provider S Soon required longer pa SSword S and took advantage of technology for rapidly tracing the phone number S that wardialer S were being run from, Such that running wardialer S became pointle SS and dangerou S. (1997-03-16) Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ alphanumeric ] [ am ] [ an ] [ app ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ aS ] [ at ] [ au ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ br ] [ break ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ carrier Scanner ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ char ] [ character ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ code ] [ codeS ] [ com ] [ combination ] [ con ] [ connect ] [ cr ] [ cracking ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ digit ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ er ] [ era ] [ eS ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gr ] [ gt ] [ gy ] [ h ] [ hat ] [ hn ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ hu ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ int ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ iS ] [ it ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ kn ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ mall ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nl ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ nS ] [ nu ] [ numberS ] [ ogg ] [ om ] [ pa ] [ paSSword ] [ ph ] [ point ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ provider ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ range ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ roach ] [ ru ] [ run ] [ Sa ] [ Sc ] [ Scan ] [ Scanner ] [ Se ] [ Sh ] [ Si ] [ Sm ] [ So ] [ St ] [ Su ] [ T ] [ tag ] [ technology ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ trillion ] [ tt ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ up ] [ uS ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ verSion ] [ vi ] [ WarGameS ] [ word ]
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