Password Security

With all the hax happening on the interwebs these days, it's strongly suggested to have buff passwords.  This article in The Economist is interesting in that it has research data on how break-able some passwords are.  If a website limits its attempts to 10 (guesses), hackers can get through 1% of the time, and as many as 126 websites don't (attempt to) limit guesses.  Using a mnemonic is suggested to make easy to remember/tough to crack passwords, but a 2006 study showed a 4% success rate using a dictionary of song lyrics, movie titles, and other pop culture goodness.