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.
In case you didn’t see this article from Slate, it seems relevant.
Also, I’d go with “Meatloaf! The final frontier!”
Adding the actual link…
https://www.slate.com/articles/technology/safety_net/2015/03/how_to_make_it_harder_for_hackers_to_assemble_your_personal_information.html
“Take me to your meatloaf.”