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freedombentoday at 12:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

It also empowers IT depts and cybersecurity people to be able to easily build a PoC to show why moving on from the deprecated protocol is important. In many white-hat jobs you can't just grab rainbow tables from a torrent, so a resource like this is helpful. For the grays and black hats, they've had access to rainbow tables like this for a very long time, so no change there.


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stackskiptontoday at 2:54 AM

Any business that needs convincing to move on from anything labeled NTLM does not care what "nerds" have to say. They are either one of those "I'm not spending money on something that works" or stuck with such legacy technical debt that at this point, removing it from environment is too costly to even consider so executives kick it down the road.

Xirdustoday at 1:30 AM

Out of curiosity, why can't white hats grab rainbow tables from torrents? Is it about seeding?

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