When I was at the staff college, we had to have 16-character passwords with a certain combination of capital letters, numbers, and symbols. I finally figured one out and it took me a week to commit it to memory. Halfway through the semester I got a notice to change my password and was so mad because I had taken so long to figure out such a good one, and now I had to change it.
Wise sysadmins have discovered that there is a healthy balance between passwords that are relatively easy to crack (only 6 months of cpu time each) with an automated program and passwords that people can't remember so they write them down and put them on a sticky note next to the monitor.
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