At 09:28 AM 3/22/2002 -0500, James M. Ray wrote: >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020322/tc_nm/tech_passwords_dc_2&; >cid=581 > >Does anyone have good suggestions for remembering long >passphrases? >JMR <SNIP>
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