Re: advice to the government
Forget long password strings.
Personal Identification Devices. Old as Secret Government Computing and working since steel-jacketed greenscreen TTY-era VDUs.
In order to enact a hack one would not only need to make copies of the PIDs used (which can be themselves time-limited), but you would need to have physical access to the equipment they permit access to as well, involving getting through whatever hard security is in place.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
