Wi-fi, Wallets and JSON Tokens Fall To Hashcat 4.x

Anyone who has seen Hashcat in action knows that it can break most passwords within a short-time. The requirement to rely on pure brute force is often not required, and where the majority of passwords can be cracked using well-defined rules. So if you use uppercase letters for the first character, and a number at the end, then Hashcat will apply its rules, and you see your password melt:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

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