Jeff Atwood

@gilles well, I do agree that length is an issue in a realm of hardware cracking, see my blog post codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/speed-hashing.html -- I used my own video hardware, two high end ATI 7970s.. but people ARE implying that pass phrases can be cracked more easily as a pattern just like l33tsp34k can.

@gilles as I said "In other words, will they actually attempt common schemes like "dictionary words separated by spaces", or "a complete sentence with punctuation", or "leet-speak numb3r substitution" as implied by xkcd?" So I will concede very basic leet-speek tables -- as Meat Loaf once said, Two out of Three Ain't Bad. But I won't concede anything else, unless you prove otherwise by cracking the above password for me! I eagerly await your results!

@gilles well I wasn't really referring to that one, as basic letter-to-number sev7n style substitution is, admittedly, pretty mechanical if you do it totally consistently and repeatably. But passphrases are a different story. If I told you my password is "I live at 55 Maple Lane in Boston", show me the tool that will crack that in sane time using rules and not brute force. I'd love to see it, if you can. :)

@Gilles " If there isn't any low-hanging password fruit (and oh, there always is), they'll just move on to the next potential victim service"

but what if I combine the "word space word" pattern with "leetspeak"? And then if I combined it with "makes a complete sentence with punctuation and intitial caps"? Even if you have a library of common password techniques, you must combine them, and also partially. It's kind of.. bullshit, honestly, to assume godlike knowledge of the password pattern chosen that reduces entropy by half.

Position was filled.. and then un-filled.. turns out, hiring a good sysadmin is hard!

well, if anyone is still around, we're hiring a sysadmin again -- blog.discourse.org/2015/04/were-hiring-a-sysadmin -- if you know someone that is looking for remote sysadmin work and is down for startup intensity, high speed growth work, email me at [email protected]

hmm, reading some of the starred messages to figure out what's going on. Migration to Slack?

wow this place is not as busy as it used to be!

and Ask Ubuntu.. guess which distro we use.. askubuntu.com/users/123/jeff-atwood?tab=activity

CARRY ON! And I have been active on SF semi-recently.. serverfault.com/users/1/jeff-atwood?tab=activity

I will leave you alone now. I apologize for interjecting with my stupid commercial offer.

Linux. SSH. Your general open source stacks... fast Intel servers on SuperMicro builds.. with SSH and IPMI access

all right well if any of those folks are interested email me at [email protected]. It's a real gig with a real pro hourly rate.

you know something you would do for lulz and extra cash monies

well, this is really a "gig" not a full time job

QUESTION: If I needed a part-time remote sysadmin that was good at the Linuxes, and the SSHes, and so forth.. where would I look

COMPUTERS ARE AWESOME

anyways, peaceout for now. Enjoy your Windows8-ing. Can't wait to get my preordered surface rt. And a Chromebook! Why not?

not asking is how you don't get nothing for nobody nohow :)

asking is how you get things

I'm sure SE community/chaos teams could hook you guys up with router hardware as necessary

the rt-16n has 128mb and is $80 on Amazon

the one I use has 256mb!

yeah, you don't need a full linux server.. modern routers are crazy fast, have lots of mem, etc

anyways just wanted to say thanks for the assistance yesterday and also the calls for "reset to defaults and try again" were kinda right in retrospect

the anti-firesheep

the main rationale is, so you can be on public wifi somewhere, VPN in to your router, and be secure in your web browsing. For free!

but the setup is intimidating

it's really useful, particularly if you have tomato on your router

howtogeek.com/60774/…

you guys should do a blog post on setting up OpenVPN

like a child's hand

also you must have a very very tiny hand

this should totally work @JourneymanGeek because you have two private subnets, one wired, one wireless. So long as one is say 192.168.x.x and the other is 10.x.x.x or 172.16.x.x

in other words, if you never plan to leave the house, whether you have a front door or not does not matter

yeah @JourneymanGeek you don't need a gateway on that local connection, because you don't care if traffic ever leaves it

codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/…

I dunno, modern routers are really nice hardware. 128mb+ RAM.. decently fast CPUs. The current one (which is awesome) pulls 10w from the wall, twice as much as the Asus N16 it replaced.

I guess it only matters for peer-to-peer stuff where you need to accept incoming connections on a computer

I wonder how many levels of NAT you can run before things start to get crazy

For a while I was running a router behind a router so double-NAT-ed (for testing some of this stuff.. not any more)

not that it's complicated it is just Another Thing to Think About in a world already quite full of things to think about

VLAN is not quite as simple as I thought it was, the whole "you want physical segmentation? buy two different damn switches" starts to make some sense as a simpler choice :)

so yes, that is always good advice :)

in retrospect your idea of "reset to defaults, then try again" would have worked, since it would have erased all the VLAN variables

@bob I meant to thank you for your networking help yesterday

I like gardening! :)

anyways, appreciate the assistance. I always edit and polish up SU questions whenever I can.