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by breck 1206 days ago
In 2011 I spent hours writing a script to brute force a wifi password at a hotel because I didn't want to pay $5 a day for wifi. It worked. I was pleased with myself.

When I checked out they gave me a receipt and I went to throw it away and saw a handful of wifi passwords in the trash bin.

Lesson learned.

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Those hotel wifi passwords are usually only valid during your stay so if someone throws them out they've likely expired or will do so soon.

You still did well writing the brute force. How did you know the composition though?