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by dijit 3018 days ago
I really, strongly, disagree with the core argument of this post.

His "solution" is to use shorter passwords. The XKCD method is good if you add separators, padding, etc; as expressed featured on xkpasswd.net

I highly recommend generating a password and then adding something unique to it.

For instance, a password I might generate would be:

$66=mine=BODY=spot=STOP=23$-d1j1t

It's memorable enough, and I highly doubt it's easily crackable. Certainly no less than 'tlpw2m'.

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Even just //44$random$WORDS$11// is effectively just as safe, in the real world. Especially if you use gibberish words that aren't in any commonly used dictionary.