Robert Reif is a brilliant password cracker. I learn all sorts of stuff about cracking passwords that I never knew about. In this episode we talk about how Robert’s summertime hacker hobby (involves a Wi-Fi pentesting stroller) helped him discover vulnerabilities in wireless routers. We’ve all heard of password best practices, but on this podcast we get the opinion of a world class password cracker. We also discuss Robert’s adventures in DEFCON’s Crack Me if You Can competition. He talks about how with little comparative resources, his team CynoSure Prime was able to stay neck and neck with large teams with a ton of corporate resources at their disposal. We recorded this a few weeks before the competition in summer of 2019, and this year they came in second place right behind Hashcat – you can see from this graph here how they were neck and neck the whole time. You can say hello to Robert at @winxp5421