Passwords are perhaps the weakest links in the cyber-
security chain; if they're complex enough to be
secure, you probably won't be able to remember them.
Add the fact that every other site seems to require a
password, and it's easy to see why far too many people
end up using one or two simple passwords that are easy
to remember, and easy to crack, too. You can write
your passwords down on a piece of paper that you can
look for and fail to find when you need it, or you can
download and install G&G's Password Cracker. It's a
tiny, free, totally portable utility that can recover
lost passwords from applications.
Password Cracker downloads as a compressed file but
runs as soon as you click the unzipped program file.
The tool's interface is a tiny dialog, about the size
of the average error message, with two text fields,
labeled Test and View, and four buttons: Enable,
Options, About, and Help. Other than some links to the
program's Web site and some of the developer's other
wares, that's it. However, the button's labels
describe their functions clearly enough, so we started

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