WarDailer??

A program which attempts to break a password of known length by iterating thru all possible combinations of characters that could make up that password.

This approach is not feasable for cracking most passwords these days. However, as late as the mid-1980s, some long-distance companies required only very short numeric access codes (e.g. five digits) to verify the identity of their customers. Wardialers were created which would, running unattended, call up long-distance providers\' local connect numbers and iteratively try possible access codes. Codes which worked were logged for later illicit use.

These wardialers had a high success rate because of the small range of possibilities to iterate through, e.g. 10000 for a five digit access code, compared to hundreds of trillions of combinations for an eight-character alphanumeric code.

Long-distance providers soon required longer passwords and took advantage of technology for rapidly tracing the phone numbers that wardialers were being run from, such that running wardialers became pointless and dangerous


http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?wardialer

En WarDialer ringer f.eks. op til

80105400
80105401
80105402

osv.
indtil f.eks.

80105800

Og checker om der er modem respons (terminal).
Ofte bliver 80 numre (gratisnumre) brugt af firmaer. Men jeg tror ikke det er så udbredt mere.

Hvis du er interesseret i en, kan du bare søge efter \"download wardialer\" på google.com

søge efter det på min side:

http://www.surreal.dk

Søgefunktionen er under menuen/utils. Der ligger en Hackers Encyclopedia

Jeg var ikke klar over at det også blev vbrugt til at knække passwords med.
Jeg mente kun at det blev brugt til automatisk at ringe til en række telefonnumre man selv kunne definere f.eks. fra 71460000 til 71469999.
Dernæst skrev den en liste over alle de numre hvor der i den anden ende var et modem, som svarede.
Derefter kunne hackeren selv begynde at hacke sig ind via det telefonnummer, da der var et modem i den anden ende.