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...theoretical anymore, and password authentication is broken." is an example of how many poeple still think "hacking" is something very difficult and nothing short of a genius is required to make the transition from theoretical to practical. It is probably the medias fault that these misconeptions are so widely spread. In this case it is just a matter of extending the program to do a small task besides the regular tasks (i.e to save all passwords entered in a file). The patch is probably about 10 to 15 lines of code, and was done in 10 minutes. Not that the cracker would have to have wri...