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If you have the database dump from Gawker, you can search for either your associated Email address, or the username they had on record. Extract that line from the file, put it in a new text file and run John The Ripper[1] on it: "./john mypassword.txt". On consumer hardware, it may take a while, but you'll eventually get it. My 2 year old 2.00GHz iMac took about 36 hours to crack my password.

If you'd like, email me and I can try to retrieve your password hash based on your email address. My email is in my profile.

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