[acqq]

I believe it's not accidental that all passwords that they crack in the demo are 14 characters or less, that can mean that they attack the hashes which are always possible to crack, the speedup they claim is 100 (they simply increased tables from 8 GB to 80 GB and put them on SSD) but e.g. 1000 seconds before was also very fast for somebody who just needed to gain access to one target.

[StavrosK]

It's not accidental, because LM only supports passwords up to 14 chars. What's worse, is that they are two 7-character passwords, which you can crack separately, basically making cracking the entire LM keyspace trivial. I think there are rainbow tables that cover all of it (I have a few but they don't contain symbols, I don't think).