Assphrase

Back at the old job, I got into the habit of hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL to lock my computer when I stepped away. All that supersecret information had to stay supersecret somehow! I've kept doing this at Carleton even though I have my own space and no one else can see my monitor - or would want to look. But I think I might have to break this habit, as Carleton has just implemented a new requirement that passwords be 15 characters long. 15! My god. IT Services helpfully suggeseted that you should make your "password" into an "passphrase" - essentially a sentence - so that you can easily remember and enter it. "It was the best of times, it was a stupid idea" is too long, though.