[saberience]

There’s a reason there are no books about this, because most people are not interested in cracking local/offline passwords.

In fact, the people most interested in password cracking are usually criminals.

But good luck with the book. It’s just not a hugely in demand topic.

[Tamklomo]

The reason is, that using hashcat is not complicated for people who have linux experience and the amount of people wanting to crack a password is probably not that high.

Otherwise you do find plenty of people on YT walking you through hashcat. The first YT Video alone has 7 Million views: "how to HACK a password // password cracking with Kali Linux and HashCat"

I wish him luck, great drive to do this, i hope it works out well enough, books are just in general not easy to sell.

[K0balt]

Tons of people in it service occasionally would like to crack local passwords for clients. It’s a big world. That’s thousands of people needing to do this every month. More than enough to make a self published book worth publishing. I’ve sold a few books that even though they maybe only sell a few copies a month have made me more than 250k over the years. Slow returns, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

[virtualritz]

When I lived in Adelaide, Australia 2006 or 2007, flexible-neck LED lamps that you plugged into an USB port to have light on your keyboard (backlit keyboards were not the norm on laptops) were a novelty item.

People simply didn't /know/ about them/that they existed at all.

I went to a computer/electronics shop in town and asked for them.

The guy told me: "We don't stock them because people don't ask for them."

[papascrubs]

Uh, what?

I'd say that this is a bit relevant to the entire field of cyber security and a good chunk of development roles. If you're not concerned about how password hashing (which is a key component of understanding cracking) works as developer-- I'm not sure what to say. While not all of the in-depth research is probably needed. It's definitely relevant to many technical fields. I work in offensive security and we use tools like this daily in our industry. And no we are not cyber criminals.