How secure is your password?

[ShadowHM]

My passwords all do use names. Hence they could, I expect, be broken without too much trouble by someone who wanted to do so.

However, they are names that are not likely easily linked to me by anyone other than a very close family member.

I have turned my irritation with one of the facts of life for most North American women into a blessing for my passwords.

Most women lose their identity upon marriage. Just try and find an old classmate some day and see what happens. The surname is seldom the same as the one they were born with. Heck, it could have changed several times by now. :o And even if they did keep their surname, what chance that the phone will be listed in their own name? And then......what chance the children they bear will carry their birth surname?

Anyway, this disappearing act means that I can quite cheerfully use the full birth names of my grandmothers and great grandmothers as passwords that will not be terribly easy to guess, but are quite easy for me to recall quickly. I never have to write them down. The only trick, of course, is that I have to remember which grandma went with which account/system as a password. B)