Hail Mary Cloud Hail Mary Cloud The Hail Mary Cloud was, or is, a botnet which used a statistical equivalent to brute force password guessing. The botnet ran from possibly as early as 2005, and certainly from 2008 until 2012 and possibly later. The botnet was named and documented by Peter N. M. Hansteen. The principle is that a botnet can try several thousands of more likely passwords against thousands of hosts, rather than millions of passwords against one host. Because the attack is distributed, the frequency on a given server is low, and unlikely to trigger alarms. Moreover, the attacks will come
Hail to the Thief "A Wolf at the Door" and "We Suck Young Blood", the reference to the dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in "2 + 2 = 5", and the allusion to the giant of "Gulliver's Travels" in "Go to Sleep". The liner notes give the album's full title as "Hail to the Thief (Or, The Gloaming)." Each track also has an alternative title, an idea Radiohead took from Victorian playbills showcasing moralistic songs played in music halls. Radiohead struggled to name the album; they considered titling it "The Gloaming" (), but this was rejected for being too "poetic" and "doomy" and so became