I used to work at a place that set passwords. They would cook up good pws, but then email them in the same message with the user name to the users. They thought I was weird because I refused to do that. I would email the user name and then phone with the pw, or visit personally, or some combination like that.
 
They had it set so that if you failed three times with your login, it would lock you out. I wanted it to be ten times because a LOT of folks miss it three times, but a pw cracking program would try 1,000 times in a couple seconds. They didn't understand my logic.
 
I think that now-a-days, the best pw would be two or three characters long. Nobody would expect or try that. 
 

I have a few long passwords which are variations of a few character strings from my past - zip codes of childhood addresses (or "postcodes" as they're known in the UK), my National Insurance number from Britain, license plate of our childhood car (which I'll never forget), and a couple of other similar things. Usually if I get a password wrong then trying a couple of my variations gets it eventually. This time, however, it didn't work.

rbecker

kennywtelejazz
When in doubt I paste this one in first


I wish I was smart enough to come up with a better  password ...
come to think of it I wish I was smart enough to understand what it meant ...
 
Kenny

Look to me like fluid dynamics or possibly electric phase. "V" could be either "volume" or "voltage".
 
What is it, Bitflipper?

I'm not Dave, but I'm pretty sure that's Einstein's formula regarding the fourth dimension.
 
Beyond that you start getting into the Age of Aquarius!
 

http://download.cnet.com/s/ipassword/
 
I use iPassword on my phone. It helps a LOT.
 
J

I think I'll start using some of the acronym soup for my passwords.  You know, something like Hi!FBI$NSA&CIA#FEMA@DEA^HLS*FDA%SEC(ATF)123.  Ya, that might do.