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Anonymous Blowhard

Long passwords are easy

...as long as you stick to words, and use more than one.

I used a similar scheme to the one you describe, and then I read this (posted by another El Reg forum user a few months ago):

http://xkcd.com/936/

I'm not ashamed to say I was embarrassed by this revelation, and have started to apply the principles to my passwords. Unfortunately a lot of sites insist on relatively short passwords.

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