hashcat use of --force is discouraged

[roycewilliams]

Hey, good writeup - just want to try to stamp out gratuitous use of --force.

All the other switches will work fine without it, and it's almost never necessary for ordinary users. It's basically a development/troubleshooting option more than anything else.

And as a colleague pointed out on the side, any hashcat command that's not working, but adding --force makes it work almost always is to override warnings about loss of data / false negatives (missing cracks) or similar low-level errors that will produce inaccurate results.