[fronti]

I have read that cracking accounts hurts your pc but without more explaination, is it true? If yes how and why?

[ConcernedCitizen]

I have read that cracking accounts hurts your pc but without more explaination, is it true? If yes how and why?

Sure, if you are referring to using your GPU to brute hashes or something, but you need to be more specific. Obviously, no amount of logins can melt your PC unless the load is too much for your setup. John & other thread-based software use a lot of PC power. It requires energy and it creates heat in the process. Thermal loads can damage your computer, of course.

[fronti]

I have read that cracking accounts hurts your pc but without more explaination, is it true? If yes how and why?

Sure, if you are referring to using your GPU to brute hashes or something, but you need to be more specific. Obviously, no amount of logins can melt your PC unless the load is too much for your setup. John & other thread-based software use a lot of PC power. It requires energy and it creates heat in the process. Thermal loads can damage your computer, of course.

I was talking about testing combolists with over 500k combos on openbullet for example; btw are there configs that are more "heat-exepnsives" than others ?

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Moved from the Serious Discussion forum to The Lounge.

[ConcernedCitizen]

I have read that cracking accounts hurts your pc but without more explaination, is it true? If yes how and why?

Sure, if you are referring to using your GPU to brute hashes or something, but you need to be more specific. Obviously, no amount of logins can melt your PC unless the load is too much for your setup. John & other thread-based software use a lot of PC power. It requires energy and it creates heat in the process. Thermal loads can damage your computer, of course.

I was talking about testing with over 500k combos on openbullet for example; btw are there configs that are more "heat-exepnsives" than others ?

No. Testing user-pass (combo lists) for accessing accounts won't create much thermal energy. You can crack accounts till your script kiddie heart gives out.

[fronti]

Sure, if you are referring to using your GPU to brute hashes or something, but you need to be more specific. Obviously, no amount of logins can melt your PC unless the load is too much for your setup. John & other thread-based software use a lot of PC power. It requires energy and it creates heat in the process. Thermal loads can damage your computer, of course.

I was talking about testing  with over 500k combos on openbullet for example; btw are there configs that are more "heat-exepnsives" than others ?

No. Testing user-pass (combo lists) for accessing accounts won't create much thermal energy. You can crack accounts till your script kiddie heart gives out.

All right, thanks for sharing your knowledge

[Drako]

No. The only thing checking a combolist would stress is your CPU. And CPUs are extremely resilient. They're probably the last thing that'll die in your computer. Plus, once your CPU gets to a temperature that's too hot to operate on, it'll send a shutdown signal to the OS to keep itself from melting.

But really, your CPU shouldn't be getting that hot from checking combolists anyway. You should be more worried about the malware your computer can be infected with from cracking programs. That's a greater threat.

[fronti]

No. The only thing checking a combolist would stress is your CPU. And CPUs are extremely resilient. They're probably the last thing that'll die in your computer. Plus, once your CPU gets to a temperature that's too hot to operate on, it'll send a shutdown signal to the OS to keep itself from melting.

But really, your CPU shouldn't be getting that hot from checking combolists anyway. You should be more worried about the malware your computer can be infected with from cracking programs. That's a greater threat.

It's configs that might hide malware right? How do I make sure they're safe?

[Drako]

No. The only thing checking a combolist would stress is your CPU. And CPUs are extremely resilient. They're probably the last thing that'll die in your computer. Plus, once your CPU gets to a temperature that's too hot to operate on, it'll send a shutdown signal to the OS to keep itself from melting.

But really, your CPU shouldn't be getting that hot from checking combolists anyway. You should be more worried about the malware your computer can be infected with from cracking programs. That's a greater threat.

It's configs that might hide malware right? How do I make sure they're safe?

Configs won't have malware. Leech programs and checker programs could possible have malware though. But if you use OpenBullet2 from Github as your checker, you'll be fine.

[fronti]

No. The only thing checking a combolist would stress is your CPU. And CPUs are extremely resilient. They're probably the last thing that'll die in your computer. Plus, once your CPU gets to a temperature that's too hot to operate on, it'll send a shutdown signal to the OS to keep itself from melting.

But really, your CPU shouldn't be getting that hot from checking combolists anyway. You should be more worried about the malware your computer can be infected with from cracking programs. That's a greater threat.

It's configs that might hide malware right? How do I make sure they're safe?

Configs won't have malware. Leech programs and checker programs could possible have malware though. But if you use OpenBullet2 from Github as your checker, you'll be fine.

Oh all right, indeed I do, I'm good. Anyways I'm looking for the documentation of openbullet to understand how it works more precisely, also to understand how to create a config, will I find thoses answears on their forum?