The best method I've found for choosing obscure
passwords is to take the initial
letters of a
phrase that's easy to remember.
Password crackers like John The Ripper have a hard time cracking these by brute force.
For example:
InsamesmCW
is a stone bitch to remember, even if you saw me type it over my shoulder,
but I know it stands for:
I've never seen a man eat so many Chicken Wings
Even if you could read the surface of my mind, all you'd get would be an indication my unhealthy South Park fixation.