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Re: Passwords
I have to disagree with you. The brute force approach to password cracking is ancient history. "Real" password cracking programs work off of extensive multilingual dictionaries (which is why good password systems have their own dictionaries to prevent you from choosing a weak password), and attempts an exhaustive number of permutations upon each. "L33t sp34k" is not safe, nor are intentional misspellings of a word, nor two words strung together, nor tacking on a few letters/numbers/symbols at the end of a word.
The best passwords are accumulations of randomly chosen lowercase, caps, numbers, and punctuation. But a "good enough" choice is usually to take the first letter from each word of a familiar phrase, book title, etc. I wouldn't recommend Lord of the Rings or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as these acronyms are in common use on the Internet.
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