Our IT guys have written a script that checks for password security and awards points based on the complexity. My passwords are usually based on the quantity of characters, gibberish, upper/lower case, numbers and symbols and get high marks on this "system".

The downside - I need to write down the passwords so I can refer to it the first half dozen times. After that it becomes more and more automatic to enter. Then the *^$D@%!s at IT force me to change the password every 60 days and it can't be the same as my previous 6 passwords. The computers time out after 15 minutes of non-usage. Not only that but all the data on the machine is encrypted! All this makes for a royal pain in the touche' considering that there is no data stored locally (except in the memory cache) and everything is on the network!

Compare this to an online site like Amazon and they will allow passwords that are simple, easy and short. They do billions of dollars of business a day and yet private/public firms which are much less likely to be attacked have the most wicked security!

This all makes as much sense as parking on a driveway and driving on a parkway!