Narrator: First up Karen. She knows, we are trying to discover her secret password but will she play hard to get.
Male 1: Just close your eyes and just sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. John is going to ask you three questions. These would be the same question three times namely what is your password. The first two times that he asks you this question you will blatantly lie. The third time, you will find you got an overwhelming desire to tell him and you will feel really, really good about it, wacky, wacky, wacky, rise and shine. John.
John: Karen what is your password?
Karen: Karen. (Laughing)
John: What did we got? Karen what is your password?
John: John. (Laughing)
John: I believe I can even say that. Let us try again, Karen what is your password?
Karen: Gadgets8.
Male 1: Sleep or relax the petty, petty. Wacky, wacky, rise, and shine.
Narrator: Karen was genuinely unaware that she had revealed her correct password to us. Would our security expert find it out so easily.
Dave: Karen this is Dave we just need a little time of yours for a second.
Narrator: In fact, he was retrieving a device that he would fit it on the back of Karen’s computer while she has been away from her desk. So, tell me what exactly you put on Karen’s computer.
Dave: Well, it is just a little device which actually records key strokes that has been typed directly from the keyboard as you can see.
Narrator: Yes.
Dave Duke; And, it can store 65,000 letters inside it and you can put it and leave it running for a month it catches all the information that you need. Put it back and take it out, just stick it back in your own system very simple by just running up a simple notepad program and typing in a secret word. You can now say that it is actually displaying. This was a password gadgets8. This is the website that she went to buy something from. This is her login name for her credit card details. This is her password and that is the credit card number.
Narrator: So, she got two slots of passwords and her credit card number, just off this thing it cost how much?
Dave Duke: $50.00.
Narrator: Worrying stuff but now it was Jessie’s turn. Our hypnotist did ask to write out her real password as well as four incorrect ones and we have to discover which the real one is by studying her body language was.
Jonathan: Okay wacky, wacky, rise, and shine. Have you got my list that you made earlier?
Jessie: I hope yes.
Jonathan: Right I am just going to ask you in return is this your password and for each one I want you to say yes so that means you will be lying for times and one you should have been telling the truth. Jessie is your password Jessica1?
Jessie: Yes.
Jonathan: Is your password Gadgetshoe?
Jessie: Yes.
Jonathan: Is your password Jessieiswicked?
Jessie: Yes.
Jonathan: Is your password noformtv?
Jessie: Yes.
Jonathan: Is your password television1?
Jessie: Yes.
Jonathan: I am going to gamble on this but her body language I would ought for that which is jessieiswicked.
Jessie: Thanks but no. It was the last one.
Jonathan: That just goes to prove how good to lie you are.
Narrator: So, Jessie has resisted hypnosis but can she protect her password from our technology expert?
Narrator: Next, we are going to see how vulnerable Jessie’s password would be to a dictionary attack. That is where hackers try in and crack into a computer system using a special program that contains a massive number of passwords that they have tried very quickly one after the other. Alright, Dave what do we need to do?
Dave Duke: Okay, what we are going to do is I am going to put a password into this tool and it is going to check using a hacking technique how quickly is it going to take to break. So, just type your password in then first to check press the button. Cracked it.
Narrator: And this is my second.
Dave Duke: Yes, I would have got that password that will be in to your system. What we need to do to is to make it more secure? We need to re-add random letters and numbers and other information into so that your password is not a real word so the people cannot use a dictionary, try the passwords and find out what it is and if we do that was this password.
Narrator: Let us try a new one.
Dave Duke: Excellent, the hacker would not be able to use a dictionary technique on that.
Narrator: So, just a few seconds of extra thought your password it would makes it much more difficult.
Dave Duke: Indeed.
Narrator: With Jess now in possession of a more secure computer it is time to see if James can protect his password.
Narrator: James proves resistant to hypnosis so Jonathan was forced to try another technique. He asked James to write out his password and then set fire to it in front of me. Now, he will attempt to guess it by studying James typing it out on an imaginary keyboard.
Jonathan: This is what I got. I got KA10AICL0T. I got paper cloth. Now are we anywhere near?
James: You are 80 percent correct but one letter is wrong and your one character missing.
Narrator: In fact, Jonathan had used a trick by writing out his password. James had made it vulnerable to Jonathan’s slight of hand despite it appearing to be destroyed.
Narrator: Right let us try the technological approach. We are going to access James’s PC remotely using widely available software. We are going to hack in to his computer and get an exact copy of his computer screen on ours involving all these key strokes and our computer expert could do this from anywhere in the world.
Dave Duke: So James type in the password please.
Dave Duke: Okay, so what we have here are key strokes and we can see he has typed paperclip and this means that he used the shift key and once so shift one which is actually benchmarks so his password is paperclip. Excellent machine with the exclamation mark.
James: Yes, that is it.
Narrator: What else can you do?
Dave Duke: What we can actually do is we can actually go and have a look in real time in his system. This is exactly what he is doing exactly by a second. So, we can see the moment he is browsing a website, putting his cursor.
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