
At the very least I implore you to turn on Filevault.

As mentioned last week, Apple includes very good security options right out of the box on their computers, and those are absolutely things that everyone should be employing.

Obligatory note: This is not in anyway an invitation to anyone to try and break into anyone else’s Mac. Still, undeterred, here’s how to use the “Pro” version of John The Ripper to crack macOS passwords. Worse still, the homebrew version seems to either not work at all or throw out very peculiar permissions-based errors no matter what machine I try and run it on.

I toyed with including this last time, but in the end opted to go a different way as macOS Catalina seems to (as of writing this) refuse to work very well with the latest version of John The Ripper.
