In Russian there's a semi-joking term 'thermorectal cryptanalysys', inspired by a number of gangster stories and movies, which involves a hot soldering iron and... yes, you guessed right.

Beats a compute cluster hands down.

This is why encryption is good against a foreign government, but not as good against your own.

A brute force attack: you apply brute force to the user. A dictionary attack: see brute force attack, but with Oxford's English Dictionary.