On Wednesday 26 June 2002 18:26, Josh Glover wrote:

> Urg. A lot of password crackers use "standard 1337" translations of
> dictionary words, anyway. So, while 84dd455mu7h4 might be a slightly
> better password than the same thing in standard English, it is not
> what I would call a good password.

Use passphrases instead of passwords.
"I don't just read the comics in the newspaper" would result in the 
Idjrtcitn 
passphrase, add a leet touch to it and the result would be: 
1djr7c17n
Now turn some of the numbers into symbols.
!djr/c17n
If you want, feel free to add an alt-symbol to it.

/Thomas
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