Cracking Mac OS X passwords 4,096 times harder than cracking Windows passwords

I seem to go through cycles on this blog. Today must be Mac OS X day :-)

Yesterday we featured an article about a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords, reducing the time to break such codes to an average of 13.6 seconds. Now more information about Windows vs. other operating systems, especially Mac OS X, has come to light.

"The same password encoded on two Windows machines will always be the same. That means that a password cracker can create a large lookup table and break passwords on any Windows computer. Unix, Linux and the Mac... [MacDailyNews]