Amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage.

[Tiberius]

I'd hold that your method has a significant cost on memorability. People like you and I might be able to remember complex passwords that require special methods of salting; evidence shows that most people cannot. However, most people can remember phrases that are made up of several words. Your solution doesn't reduce complexity; in fact one could argue that it increases it.

[Jackalope]

IT departments know nothing about actual computer security.

Preaching to the choir. Unfortunatly, we're governed by certain industry regulations, the writers of which also know little or nothing about real security.

[leo-rcc]

I've told my colleagues at work the same thing. Pass-phrases and/or tokens make the network far more secure than some 8 to 12 character with uppercase/lowercase and special character password. It creates a false sense of security. You think you have a safe password, that is in fact easy to brute force, and is hard to remember for humans. While a pass-phrase of variable length is far easier to remember and a lot harder to brute force.

Still, even in 1987 when Spaceballs was made, people already knew that 12345 is not the best password in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I use an alpha numeric combination based on my army number with some symbols. (say /.[.#) It's strong, easy for ME to remember and not written down anywhere.I never use a number sequence such as say Fibonacci, dates of birth, personal names, or any word in the dictionary.

[Tiberius]

Strength depends more on length than complexity.

For instance, aaaaaaaaaaaa is technically stronger than Hw9&m0C! in a brute-force scenario.

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Strength depends more on length than complexity.

For instance, aaaaaaaaaaaa is technically stronger than Hw9&m0C! in a brute-force scenario.

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Indeed.Mine has not less than 10 characters.

[Doubting Thomas]

I use a combination of letters, & numbers, and I tend to use little used characters in between words, like the | character, or = or +. My current email password is almost too secure, since every time I type it in I tend to either fat finger it, or don't get the shift right and tend to type it in wrong.

Another important thing about keeping your password secure is to change it on occasion. Maybe once a month, once every six months at least. And NEVER use the same password on different online accounts. If someone hacks into one, then they'll have your password for other accounts.