Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say

An anonymous reader writes "NewScientist reports, 'Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.' Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm that targets grammatically correct passwords. Can bad grammar really make your password secure?"

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Re:Randomized passwords are the best

[Sique]

Actually, no. Phone numbers contain much context (e.g. area code), and they have a very limited alphabet (just the numbers 0-9). A random password can use a much larger alphabet and contains much less context. So, memorizing a ten character password is definitely harder than a ten digit phone number.