It was a "recovery" and not a crack if you store your password somewhere and lose direct access to it it's not really cracking when you guess. But to get on to

It was a "recovery" and not a crack if you store your password somewhere and lose direct access to it it's not really cracking when you guess. But to get on topic: This was one of my favorite ways of recovering passwords when I had a blind SQL injection somewhere. I wrote a nice perl script that brute forced (yes the guy in the article also brute forced) the field through the SQL substr command. Happy, simpler times :)