A while back I read somebody’s suggestion that sentences make better passwords than the usual “combination of 8-12 letters and numbers and special characters.” I never did anything about it with my own codes, but it made some sense to me.

So today I’m reading Facebook and run across Kim Baron’s post about a meatloaf she was cooking, and then Lester Norton (Solonor) commented:

“The weird meatloaf is in the oven.” is my new passphrase.

Well now. Suppose you take a well-known phrase you’re going to remember and change a single word:

• You killed my meatloaf. Prepare to die. (Princess Bride)
• My meatloaf is full of eels. (Monty Python)
• I think we’re all bozos on this meatloaf. (Firesign Theater)
• You’re gonna need a bigger meatloaf. (Jaws)
• Of all the meatloafs in all the world… (Casablanca)
• Meatloaf! (Citizen Kane)
• I’m gonna make him a meatloaf he can’t refuse. (The Godfather)

Any one of those might be an easily remembered passphrase and probably reasonably secure too.