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[Pnx]

I have one complex password for my gmail account, one very complex one for my hotmail account, and about five or six different simpler passwords I use for everything else.

[eerr]

hey guys i met master chief in real life it was total cool

Edit: XKCD is written and drawn by Randall Munroe. From the About page:

I'm a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. As of June 2007 I live in Massachusetts.

Double Edit for Further Schooling:

I don't use submitted comic ideas and I have already heard about every company making human hamster balls and any news story about velociraptors.

inb4 "You got trolled so I win."

........

Spoiler alert:

He lied.

[ed boy]

I have one complex password for my gmail account, one very complex one for my hotmail account, and about five or six different simpler passwords I use for everything else.

Same here. Anything that would be bad if someone else got the details has its unique password, and anything that isn't a danger gets one aof a few standard ones.

[Johuotar]

I'm annoyed by websites having different kind of requirements for passwords, like lenght or whether it can start with number etc.

[Johuotar]

Oh yeah, here you need to change password 4 times a year too, and it has to be a new one.

[Darvi]

I use inaccurate mathematical formulae for my passwords.

No not only would a non-math geek not be able to find it out, but actual math geeks can't either.


And yeah, the whole "change your pw every 6 months" thing is annoying (although a lot better than every 3 months I guess) since I'm unable to remember more than 3 pws.

[Ultimuh]

I use something simple for password, helps my unreliable brain to remember stuff.
It mostly involves stuff I never reveal to anyone anyway.

[Darvi]

Your true name?

[Ultimuh]

Your true name?

Guessing won't help.
Besides, my real name is already revealed somewhere on these forums.

[Cheeetar]

You might be confusing 'a few people you talked to' with 'every single computer scientist ever'. Don't worry, this is a common mistake I'm sure.

You seem to be confusing the few people you've spoken to with everyone ever.

I don't get it.

[Capntastic]

The password that I use tends to change pretty rarely.  You'd have to really try hard to figure it out, given how inconsistent it is.  Most people stick with one password for a long time, but that makes it easy to get keylogged.  I use a few variations on the same 'theme'.  I prefer to keep them short, without alternating caps or anything silly like that. 

Does anyone else use one of those websites that uses an algorithm to help you store passwords?  I think they're pretty cool, but I am just way too lazy to use them.  I also think the Blizzard authorizor things are very cool, but I have no reason for one.  I think they make an app for that now?  I know it's a real hassle if they break, which one of my friends had problems with a year or so ago. 

I'm no tech guy, but isn't it all a moot point once quantum computers wreck encryption?

[rarborman]

I have a set of paswords, and use them based on importance of security over ease.

q1w2e3 may or may not contain r4

The six letter name of my stuffed animal.

The four words that best solve all of the problems of the world.

A computer could guess the first in a nanosec, the second in maybe a week, and the last, everyone else still hasnt found out yet.

I use to have a massive jumble of word parts grouped into a song I could recall, but I rarely use it, because its like 24-30 letters long, and only used it for one thing.

[Darvi]

The four words that best solve all of the problems of the world.

Kill it with fire.

Problem solved!

[GalenEvil]

The four words that best solve all of the problems of the world.

My guess is "Kill it with MAGMA" with varying length on the word Magma depending on how pissed you are the day you change your password to it?

Fun one is taking a random set of 4-8 2 digit numbers and then having your password as <number><correspondingElementName><number2><...> and so on until you get to the end of the list and then try to come up with a chemical formula that could possibly use them with "PLUS" instead of the plus sign unless you can put in those sorts of special characters.  The hardest part would be having to memorize the order of the elements, or carry a pocket periodic table, as well as keep the chem formula written down until you memorize the entire password... can be useful if you are allowed to have extremely large passwords or just do simple ones like H20, H2O2, NaCl, KCl, HCl, etc. Or be difficult and use hydrocarbon chains. The sky's the limit!

[RedKing]

I work for the DoJ. 'Nuff said. I have to remember more passwords than are dreamt of in your philosophy, and the requirement for them are arcane and *differernt* for every system. I'd say Nadaka probably has the same problem, but the DoD wised up years ago and went to a card-based system. We're trying to convert over to a card system but it's slow going.

Next 5-10 years, I figure most government agencies (at least in the LE/defense sector) will go to biometrics.

All I'll say on the schemes I use is thank god for bilingualism. The "no dictionary words" rule doesn't apply when you use German or Mandarin pinyin.