[ale] OT: password gripe

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tom)]

Well, one daughter uses an approach like this, and she seems to like it. 
It seems a little more likely to drive me nuts, which is hardly worth the 
effort since that is just a short stroll...

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Ed Cashin wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> ...
>> I always tell people to take a sentence that makes sense to them and use
>> the first character of each word to generate a password. ?That's what I
>> do, and it's easy to remember. ?I then throw in punctuation and/or
>> numeric substitution where it makes sense:
>
> Me too, but nobody ever liked my suggestion.  It's a little reassuring to see
> that somebody else likes the idea, but it's even more disturbing that nobody
> I've mentioned the idea to likes it.  It seems easy and effective to me---what's
> not to love!?  ;)
>
>