Self 'salting' your same password across different sites

[Incognito]

And far cheaper than $12K. How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat

Lol, how much do you think Cloudcracker costs to run as a going service.

The chap I linked to built the box himself and has it running in his office.

[Sysman]

Lol, how much do you think Cloudcracker costs to run as a going service.

The chap I linked to built the box himself and has it running in his office.

You missed the point. Anyone with a will to do this can rent a service for a few bucks.

You don't need an outlay of thousands to get cracking, so many are at it.

Thanks for the link, but I decided about a decade ago that 8 character passwords were too vulnerable.

[Incognito]

You missed the point. Anyone with a will to do this can rent a service for a few bucks.

You don't need an outlay of thousands to get cracking, so many are at it.

Thanks for the link, but I decided about a decade ago that 8 character passwords were too vulnerable.

No you missed the point. You're trying to compare someone hacking his neighbours wifi with someone being able to do a brute force of the NTLM key space at length 8 within 12 hours. You do that when you're pen testing organisations, not trying to hack your neighbours wifi. A use case would be identifying weak passwords as part of a security audit so that you can force the user to reset them.

The use case you presented can be done using backtrack and a good word list.