Editing L0pht (section)

==Products==
As L0pht occupied a physical space, it had real expenses such as electricity, phone, Internet access, and rent.  Early in the L0pht's history these costs were evenly divided among L0pht members. In fact, L0pht originally shared a space with a hat-making business run by the spouses of Brian Oblivion and Count Zero, and the rental cost was divided amongst them both. This was soon subsidized by profits made from selling old hardware at the monthly MIT electronic flea market during the summer.<ref name="expenses">{{cite web|url=http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/|title=Brian Oblivion on "function and direction of the L0pht" in 1998|access-date=2008-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980205065941/http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/ |archive-date=1998-02-05}}</ref>

Occasionally, shell accounts were offered for low cost on the L0pht.com server to selected individuals; while these individuals had access to the L0pht.com server they were not members of L0pht. One of the first physical products sold for profit by L0pht was a [[POCSAG]] decoder kit, which was sold in both kit and assembled form.  Subsequently, the Whacked Mac Archives were transferred to CD-ROM for sale,<ref name="2600Mag">{{Google books|ciE9AQAAIAAJ|2600 Magazine Vol 13|page=49|keywords=Whacked Mac Archives}}</ref> soon followed by CD copies of the Black Crawling System Archives.  The command line version of [[L0phtCrack]], the [[password cracking|password cracker]] for [[Windows NT]], was given away free, but the [[GUI]] version was sold as a commercial product. This was followed by the creation of the Hacker News Network website to host advertisements. However, even with these sources of income, L0pht barely broke even, and eventually began doing custom security coding for companies like NFR.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/9903/1502.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510014025/http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/9903/1502.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-05-10 |title=NFR and L0pht to Deliver Improved IDS |work=InfoSecNews.org }}</ref>
<ref name="NFRIDSv4">{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/NFR+Intrusion+Detection+Appliance+Version+4.0+Released.-a056284016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516135529/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/NFR+Intrusion+Detection+Appliance+Version+4.0+Released.-a056284016 |url-status=live |archive-date=2019-05-16 |title=NFR Intrusion Detection Appliance Version 4.0 Released |work=thefreelibrary.com }}</ref>
<ref name="cso">{{cite journal
|url=http://www.csoonline.com/article/221192/LOpht_in_Transition/1
|title=L0pht in Transition
|journal=CSO
|date=2007-04-17
|last=Fitzgerald
|first=Michael
|access-date=2008-06-18
|archive-date=2016-03-05
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305043118/http://www.csoonline.com/article/2121870/network-security/lopht-in-transition.html
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

In January 2009, [[L0phtCrack]] was acquired by the original authors Zatko, Wysopal, and Rioux from Symantec. L0phtCrack 6 was released at the SOURCE Boston Conference on March 11, 2009. L0phtCrack 6 contains support for 64-bit Windows platforms as well as upgraded [[rainbow tables]] support. On April 21, 2020 Terahash <ref name="terahash">{{cite web|url=https://www.terahash.com/news/terahash-acquires-l0phtcrack.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421191549/https://terahash.com/news/terahash-acquires-l0phtcrack.htm |archive-date=2020-04-21 |title=Terahash Acquires L0phtCrack }}</ref> announced it had acquired [[L0phtCrack]], details of the sale were not released. As of July 1, 2021, the L0phtCrack software is no longer owned by Terahash,<ref name="changeHands">{{cite web |url=https://l0phtcrack.gitlab.io/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404073702/https://l0phtcrack.gitlab.io/ |archive-date=2022-04-04 |title=Changes for L0phtCrack |access-date=2022-04-29 |url-status=live }}</ref> LLC. It has been repossessed by the previous owners, formerly known as L0pht Holdings, LLC for Terahash defaulting on the installment sale loan. L0phtCrack has now been released as open source. Space Rogue had also published a book on February 24, 2023.