This is what the author of the original article is trying to say, apparently nobody has heard of hybrid dictionary crackers. For example, JtR has a whole set of

This is what the author of the original article is trying to say, apparently nobody has heard of hybrid dictionary crackers. For example, JtR has a whole set of 'mangling rules' that take words in a provided dictionary and apply various transformations (see http://www.openwall.com/john/doc/RULES.shtml http://www.openwall.com/john/doc/RULES.shtml).