[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

You should still be able to scan through the database to spot similarities, even when they're encrypted, right? They're all encrypted the same way.

Not true, each user has a Salt that is used to encrypt the password.

To answer the original question, you can add the following to your config.php to get the plaintext password. This is not adviced on a production board!!

define('DISABLE_PASSWORD_CLEARING', true);