| Walt Mankowski via plug on 17 Jan 2026 10:45:16 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Woo Hoo! I Made Hackaday! |
Ah, I guess I didn't zoom in and look closely enough at the screen to see the Windows logo in the corner. I assumed you must have been using Linux since you mentioned installing Debian on it, and I couldn't see how you could do that AND have your cracker running for 6 months. I guess you must have let it run for all that time first, then gave up and installed Linux? Figuring out how to run the app from PowerShell is clever, but aside from that I'm not really seeing the point of this exercise. Once you realized the size of your search space and how slow it was to call the app, why did you leave it running for 6 months? Were you at least check-pointing where you were in case of a power failure or BSOD? Walt On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 06:20:48AM -0500, Casey Bralla via plug wrote: > It was a hack that failed :( > > There's a windows app (not Linux) that let's you manipulate the BIOS. One > of those manipulation commands is to change/set/unset the password. The app > normally runs as a GUI, but can be called from PowerShell with admin > privileges. There doesn't seem like there's any limit to the number of > times it could be run, but at 9 seconds per cycle, who cares. > > I swapped the hard drive in the laptop and installed a clean Windows 10, > then ran a python script in PowerShell to call the HP routine. > > On 1/16/26 10:42 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote: > > That's cool, but is it really a "hack" if you haven't actually cracked > > it yet? :) > > > > I'm a bit confused about what you're doing. It sounds like HP has a > > program that you can run in user-space on Linux that access the bios > > settings of the machine it's running on. Is that the case? > > > > I'm a bit surprised that it lets you guess passwords forever, but I > > suppose if I knew it would take 180 trillion years to brute force I > > might not bother writing any code to lock out the party that's trying > > to crack the code, either. > > > > Walt > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 09:14:21PM -0500, Casey Bralla via plug wrote: > > > https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/project-fail-cracking-a-laptop-bios-password-using-ai/ > > > > > > Casey > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > > > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug