I recently asked a question on a 17 diget password with random letters and symbols and numbers...It turns out however that what I really need to crack is easy as hell.

It is a 5 digets. All numbers. Easy enough? But my question is would it be easier to do it physicly on a computer in the network where it is probably faster but more likely I will get caught, or to do it from my computer online?

That's still 100,000 possible combinations

5 digits, so 99999 different combinations? If you want to sit at the computer and input them yourself then be my guest. Lets assume it takes you 2 seconds to key in a password and hit enter. 4 seconds for it to scan the username/password and verify whether it is correct/incorrect.

You will be sitting at the computer for about 200 hours. Did you put any thought into this?

I don't think he did...

Remembering if you did it online, you COULD get court, by the IP address you have, and that would take you to your home.

But that would depend on whats the password for and how important is what your tring to get at to someone else.

WTF are you talking about? This isn't 1952 anymore. Any regular 2.5 GHz computer can search 6 million password combos per second. To crack a 5-digit password with a 10-character length will take 0.02 seconds.

There is a world beyond a moron who only knows how to point and click, yes Brute-forcers are programs written that automatically bruteforce passwords. Ever put some thought into that?

If there's a network connection in the cracking process (that is, you're not cracking a hash you have locally, you're cracking a login interface or what not), you're going to have to factor in network response times. If it's over the Internet, expect a hell of a lot longer than .02 seconds. Hell, each freakin' attempt will likely take over 1 second.

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Yes. I've also heard that some login systems purposely add a time delay just for these events to slow it down.

Oh, you've got me now, cense, you've got me now. Hint the "host" computer to be the one with the brute strength, it just needs someone to give it a push, no?

Moron, he clearly implied if a human was going to sit at a computer and manually try each combination.

I think Im crying.