Link: Cracking a Family Member's Password

A software developer takes on the problem of gaining access to a deceased grandparent's password-protected computer. I think about this probably more than I should — I don't know all my loved ones' passwords!

"After about two seconds (yes the password was that simple) I had the password! Embarrassingly, it was something we easily could have and should have guessed. But we didn’t, so my effort was for something at least."

Cracking a Family Member’s Password

My wife’s grandfather passed away near the start of this year, and while going through his things her family found an iMac that nobody knew the password to. I’m sort of the go-to person in the family for problems like this, but it also seemed like a fun challenge so I figured I’d take a crack at it. I didn’t learn this until later, but this iMac was from 2011 and was running OSX 10.

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