The passwords for my important stuff look much like the above. Just write a sentence that's easy to remember, replace letters with the special characters they look like and blend it all together. Works a treat.
I consider this the geek equivalent of using "password" or "123456". It is so common for tech people to do this. The real security here is the length of the password, not the special characters.
T#!$ p@$$w0rd w0uld &e re@lly #@rd t0 cr@ck.
T#!$p@$$w0rdw0uld&ere@lly#@rdt0cr@ck
The passwords for my important stuff look much like the above. Just write a sentence that's easy to remember, replace letters with the special characters they look like and blend it all together. Works a treat.