Originally Posted by
Kushala Daora
Brute forcing is using a program to crack into an account by sending a bunch of password requests and will keep going until it finds the right password. I don't know the exact mechanics but thats the general gist.
You can crack just about anything you want with a brute force but its not used often because the longer the password of the victims account, the LONGER it will take and every character added, the time to brute forcer takes to find the password is multiplied by some non-constant amount (depends on the program) which means not many people use it and not often an effective method.