Choose a good password
Bad form to post unfunny actual tips, I know, but what the hell...

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My top tip for setting a difficult-to-crack, easy-to-remember password =

1) Take your favourite nursery rhyme, song lyric, poem stanza etc

2) Turn it into an acronym using these rules:

-Use the first letter of each word for each letter of the password, i.e. Jack becomes a 'j'
-substitute the word 'and' for an ampersand '&'
-subsitute the word 'a' or 'at' with an '@' symbol
-substitute words that sound like numbers for the number itself, i.e. to--2, free--3, for--4 etc
-Capitalise the first letter

Now you have a password that almost certainly meets your company's password policy. Here's one I made earlier:

J&jwuth2f@pow

Which is of course "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water"

Reminders can then be left on your desk, in your notebook or wherever in a form that you find easy to remember, i.e. "password is Jack and Jill"
( chart cat has an itch, Fri 5 Sep 2008, 15:59, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

or
just use 8 asterisks like most people

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( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sat 6 Sep 2008, 3:39, Reply)

hunter2?

( Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Sun 30 Nov 2008, 0:41, Reply)

chortle
^ :-)
( chart cat has an itch, Sat 6 Sep 2008, 12:31, Reply)

@Mime

That was very funny... I would click if it was possible.
( Moey, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 14:19, Reply)