# Password nonsense

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 30, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464 "2010-11-30T21:26:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/41 "2010-12-01T20:57:14Z")

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My passwords must contain at least three backspaces, one Function key and three ‘any’ keys.

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### Author: ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/42 "2010-12-01T23:38:16Z")

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> [@Canadjun](#):
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> The numbers have to be transcendental and imaginary.

Why not quaternions?

What about the characters in the Flanders and Swan song “cha, pop, aiee”? The cha was pronounced as a German achlaut, the pop is done with a finger inside the mouth popping a cheek and the aiee is what it sounds like.

I think we will end up with biometric passwords.

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### Author: ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/43 "2010-12-02T00:10:34Z")

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If you add up the Unicode values of all the characters in your password, and apply the “sin” function to the total, the result must be \<= .5.

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