Toastmasters.

Yesterday’s security class was fun – I had a field day trying to crack passwords using LC5. Don’t worry, I wasn’t cracking somebody else’s password – I was merely using LC5 to check if the passwords that I have in my working computer was safe or not. Apparently it was – at least after more than 2 hours of brute force attack:

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But the scary thing about passwords, as I learned yesterday, was that as long as it is a dictionary word, it takes the password crackers (not just LC5, but generally most password crackers) less than a second to crack – when I tried to put “orange3970” as the password for a test, it was cracked the moment the cracking process began! Blimey!

I went for a Toastmasters Club meeting yesterday evening for the first time in my life and I think the experience there was pretty good. What I enjoyed the most was to be able to talk to a lot of other people – I’ve never done that since I’ve returned to Hong Kong – and also to pick up something about public speaking. I won’t mind going back again, or even sign up as a member! In a certain way, I’m kinda looking forward to the next session. Haha.

Security class later again. Hopefully there’ll be something fun today as well.