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Submission + - WPA/WPA2 Cracking with CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by wintertargeter on Monday August 15, 2011 @11:10AM

wintertargeter writes: Yeah, it's another article on security, but this time we finally get a complete picture. Tom's Hardware looks at WPA/WPA2 brute-force cracking with CPUs, GPUs, and Amazon's Nvidia Tesla-based EC2 cloud servers.

Verdict? WPA/WPA2 is pretty damn secure. Now to wait for a side-channel attack. Sigh....

Submission + - SSD Failure Rates (tomshardware.com) 5

Submitted by wintertargeter on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:09AM

wintertargeter writes: Looks like Tom's Hardware has posted the first long-term study of SSD failure rates. The chart on the last page is interesting. Based on numbers, it looks like SSDs aren't more reliable than hard drives. http://media.bestofmicro.com/4/A/302122/original/ssdfailurerates_1024.png

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