[dbetteridge]

I recall using ntlm rainbow tables to crack windows hashes in high school in like 2008?

Amazing that this is still around and causing someone enough of a headache to justify spending money on.

Also amazing what a teenager with lots of free time and a bootable Linux usb can get up to.

[eerikkivistik]

There used to be a joint online project to compute these tables in a SETI like distributed system. Everyone who contributed their CPU cycles, could use the tables. And yeah, around 2005-2008.

[coopreme]

LM, nthash aka NTLM, net-ntlmv1 aka ntlmv1, net-ntlmv2 aka NTLMv2. Challenge response stuff is different. Naming here is painful.

[bri3d]

net-ntlmv1 rainbow tables have been around forever too though, the same attack documented in this blog post has been hosted as a web service at https://crack.sh/netntlm/ for 10+ years

[1over137]

Yeah, but now it's Google! Google!

[dbetteridge]

Ah Microsoft and naming things... Name a better combo

But fair enough, I don't recall which exact version I was mucking with that long ago.

[CableNinja]

A few years ago i was doing some vm things in azure. Hadnt touched azure before, and spent 10+ minutes of frustration trying to figure out how to get amd64/x86_64 things started, as the only thing i could find was "Azure ARM", and on googling, "arm" here means azure resource manager... ARGH why does microsoft insist on using existing names and acronyms!?!?

[Greed]

I was part of a user study on Azure back when it first rolled out-- they were looking for seniors with an AWS background to participate in UX research, and I remember walking out of that study with imposter syndrome for the very first time. Spent 60 minutes totally unable to do the thing I wanted to do when I was introduced to Azure for the first time, and I remember thinking... am I a fraud?

No! Not this time, at least. In hindsight everything was named and organized terribly and it hasn't improved much since.

[antonkochubey]

Because in their eyes if something was not invented here, it may as well not exist :-) they haven’t managed to cure this sickness in decades.

[coopreme]

Ya they just announced they are renaming security algos to copilot!!! story here -> https://[e-mail]/WVZvnI?exploit.bat

[phanimahesh]

Love this. Classic microsoft.

[rootsudo]

yep, that and also can use cain and abel even back then... hardest part was putting whatever network card in promiscious mode.

[dbetteridge]

Yes!! That was the software, thanks for the memory trigger