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I can't recall my exact username/password variation combo for my network router, but I've narrowed it down to a list of about 81-90 or so possibilities..

I could just hit the factory reset and start over, but I'd rather avoid having to reconfigure my settings and all if I can put the [relatively] short list of permutations into a program or bot and have the problem solved quickly.

I can't recall my exact username/password variation combo for my network router, but I've narrowed it down to a list of about 81-90 or so possibilities.. I could just hit the factory reset and start over, but I'd rather avoid having to reconfigure my settings and all if I can put the [relatively] short list of permutations into a program or bot and have the problem solved quickly.

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Do you know the approximate length? If so, and it's less than like 40 characters, a modern GPU can crack it in literaly seconds, the most modern RTX 50* series likely sub 1s i f shorter but "long enough" for most websites.

's admin password is CorrectHorseBatteryStaple.

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I am glad someone else remembers this.

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Yeah its less than 40 characters, maybe one special character.. no doubt it would be easy for a program to crack.

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Special characters do not matter anymore. That's a bad trick. NIST updated the standard, "short" (10, 12, 14 char) passwords that are complex are retarded. Your A_%neg0pz password is not strong. That's a shit password and just as easy for an RTX 5090 to c rack - microseconds - as 1234567890. Because even if it's not, and it takes 3x more GPU power to crack, your 180 ms time is no w 540ms... WOW! edit below

Dig into XKCD CorrectHorseBatteryStaple, and understand why it's better, but in 2025 even that's shit. Use AI, chatGPT is better than Gemini, Gemini is google and will tel you that 10-12 len + complex characters is better, because that's what google uses. Issue is, google is serving 2 billion people (or whatever), and that works better than "Make a RANDOM string of words that you'll EASILY remember that's at least length 58", people don't do random very well. They'll do some stupid shit like "MommyDaddyKittyDoggyBrotherSister". All of those words are individually vast search spaces and you'd think that's good, but it's bad because the lexicographical relationship between them is vast, so a dictionary attack will guess those groupings before others.

e: Because those complex passwords are hard for humans to remember, so humans being the dumb niggers that we are, tend to write them down and then also lose that paper. Or even worse use shit like "What's your first car?" and "Your high school mascot?" as your security questions, the go on twitter and answer a meme account who makes a meme asking those exact question as a means of data harvesting.

DID I TELL YOU PEOPLE ARE RETARDED?

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Yeah well I wasn't terribly concerned about the security of my router when I set the username and password the first time. At least its better than the default admin/12345.

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stupid question but you twice mention that a GPU can crack it but isn't that just a hunk of hardware that renders images to your screen? A video card? How is that going to crack passwords?

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It's unethical to dox the admin password.