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A few weeks ago, I picked this device up from the Dayton Hamvention:

https://poal.co/s/Electronics/538229

There's some programming software that goes with it, but the manufacturer keeps it under password protected zip files. I don't know why, but they do:

http://www.gorman-redlich.com/downloads/ http://www.gorman-redlich.com/Downloads/WinEASSetup202b.zip

I was able to contact said manufacturer and was given a password: GrmnDosPass - but that doesn't work. When I asked for assistance, I got a really passive-aggressive email back stating that they tried to call me but why didn't I answer the phone so they can help me. Maybe because I don't take calls without knowing who they are and random call from local area code is auto-spam? Or for half a dozen other reasons, but the place basically refused to deal with me unless they could call me. Thanks, but this isn't 1974.

So now I have a piece of software that's locked, and I've been unable to brute force the password. Are there any pieces of software that are known to work? I have to assume that it's a password similar to what was given, or perhaps the files are simply corrupt.

A few weeks ago, I picked this device up from the Dayton Hamvention: https://poal.co/s/Electronics/538229 There's some programming software that goes with it, but the manufacturer keeps it under password protected zip files. I don't know why, but they do: http://www.gorman-redlich.com/downloads/ http://www.gorman-redlich.com/Downloads/WinEASSetup202b.zip I was able to contact said manufacturer and was given a password: GrmnDosPass - but that doesn't work. When I asked for assistance, I got a really passive-aggressive email back stating that they tried to call me but why didn't I answer the phone so they can help me. Maybe because I don't take calls without knowing who they are and random call from local area code is auto-spam? Or for half a dozen other reasons, but the place basically refused to deal with me unless they could call me. Thanks, but this isn't 1974. So now I have a piece of software that's locked, and I've been unable to brute force the password. Are there any pieces of software that are known to work? I have to assume that it's a password similar to what was given, or perhaps the files are simply corrupt.

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There's probably always a better way, but I'm a stupid bird and can't say.

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There's probably always a better way, but I'm a stupid bird and can't say.

TWIRL & TWINKLE?

I seriously doubt the "anything they claim to have, what they actually have is ten years ahead of the public" meme.

The u.s. couldn't get a rocket to orbit before musk. Couldn't do proper semiconductor tech at scale (without adding asians as the secret ingredient) without the last 2-4 years of spinning up the hardware-engineering pipeline with the universities.

The best we have is about 9001 backdoors going to the Nth-level deep, like a rube-goldberg machine, sold, with tacit understanding, to five billion consumers, including foreign governments who knew what they were buying.

If theres a better way then building a giant coffin in utah, while jam packing it with parallel compute to the fucking gills like skynets cancerous overgrown mutant prototype, on glorified FPGAs putting out more heat than the sun all just to crack RSA et al, while calling it an "NSA datacenter"--if theres a better, faster way, I doubt we, meaning you, me, or even the NSA or alphabet org, would know about it.

America is braindead, even its institutions.