Serena_Myr, it is as equally possible to achieve these super-strong passwords such as what I've noted through a method of making things that sound like words from their visual aspect, but without being words and/or based upon words. In turn, it throws even what Randall Munroe tries to make a point of to the wind, invalidating the argument set forth in his comic by showing ease-of-use to strange, short, made-up wording. However, it still leaves the mind easily able to remember because it will "roll off the tongue", as the old adage goes, causing the person to remember their password by the image drawn in their own mind. ;) For proof to the pudding, you end up with the following math... Even with a small, case-insensitive, 12-character password using only numbers/letters... 12 [characters] ^ 36 [possibilities/character] = 7.0880187498509184538134430700957^10*38 [combinations] 7.0880187498509184538134430700957^10*38 [combinations] / 1000 [guesses/sec.] / 31536000 [sec./year] = 2.2475960013479573991037046772247*10^28 [years] = 22,475,960,013,479,573,991,037,046,772.247 [years] ...which (in my personal opinion) is far longer than the universe (let alone RuneScape) is likely to remain around. In turn, it makes itself a very easy alternative to turn to over choosing even a set of ~4 dictionary words. Heck, it would even make a good thing for geekoverlord (our opening poster, who asked about how others would react to the plight of being hacked) to construct a password according to this very school of thought which I've just shown the math for, in order to prevent ever being hacked again by even mere chance. That is, providing they never end up with getting their PC hacked from a mis-step on the web. :ugeek: ~D. V. "Crunching the numbers /w calculator, while listening to 'ParagonX9 - Chaoz Japan'..." Devnull