Well, there may be a small motivation. Team hashcat is afaik always among top three players in many competitions dedicated to password recovering. Despite that I haven't done any analyzes of hashcat, I don't think there's any backdoor in it. I think all of us use a firewall, so if there was an intensive communication between your PC and a remote server, you'd catch it.
But I saw this sentence: 'The one was that hashcat does not need to be open source.' I use to hear such a thing when someone talks about a software used by small group of people or about a software, which could anyone rewrite in few minutes and things like that. Well, everything doesn't need to be open source. But let imagine that linux was not open source. It might be stable, simple, fast and portable, but surely not as big and as used as it is these days. I mean, I'm sure open source community would make hashcat even bigger than it is now.
Guys, please, stay calm and do not attack me for this reply. Thank you.
But I saw this sentence: 'The one was that hashcat does not need to be open source.' I use to hear such a thing when someone talks about a software used by small group of people or about a software, which could anyone rewrite in few minutes and things like that. Well, everything doesn't need to be open source. But let imagine that linux was not open source. It might be stable, simple, fast and portable, but surely not as big and as used as it is these days. I mean, I'm sure open source community would make hashcat even bigger than it is now.
Guys, please, stay calm and do not attack me for this reply. Thank you.