{"id":2478,"date":"2008-05-20T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T07:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crypticide.com\/dropsafe\/article\/2478"},"modified":"2008-05-20T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T07:30:59","slug":"computer-associates-thinks-cracklib-is-a-hacking-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/article\/2478","title":{"rendered":"Computer Associates thinks CrackLib is a hacking tool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CA Anti-Spyware 2008 (aka: Pestpatrol) is not quite correct about <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/cracklib\">CrackLib<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pestpatrol.com\/zks\/pestinfo\/c\/cracklib_2_7.asp\">http:\/\/www.pestpatrol.com\/zks\/pestinfo\/c\/cracklib_2_7.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Clot Factor<\/em>: \tCracklib 2.7: 1 <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Clot Factor&#8221; is a measure of how much a pest &#8220;gums up&#8221; a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Countries Affected<\/em>: In the past three months, we have received reports of Cracklib 2.7 in United Kingdom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mmmm&#8230;  another one of the &#8220;never mind the accuracy, feel the width&#8221; security tools, then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CA Anti-Spyware 2008 (aka: Pestpatrol) is not quite correct about CrackLib: http:\/\/www.pestpatrol.com\/zks\/pestinfo\/c\/cracklib_2_7.asp Clot Factor: Cracklib 2.7: 1 The &#8220;Clot Factor&#8221; is a measure of how much a pest &#8220;gums up&#8221; a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}