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And all the sites nag you to include a capital, a non alpha and a number blah blah. How is that different?


Ifreakingrock! instead of ifreakingrock, inputted by you with some meaning to you, is far easier to remember than "Yz52356Dde.."


Several years ago I worked at a company where the system generated uncrackable passwords. They were random jumble of letters and numbers. Nobody could remember them, so guess what? Most people had theirs written on a PostIt note and stuck to their screen or on a slip of paper in their top drawer. Almost as good as leaving the front door key under the mat.




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