>I think more people need to learn to remember arbitrary strings.
The entire point is that humans aren't very good at doing this.
>(Note: This doesn't really apply to me or most of us here in most cases, but for example my WiFi password is of the form "Mycatsname9" and yet my neighbour still has to ask me for it whenever her phone forgets it)
This is actually exactly the kind of scenario where using pass phrases makes the most sense. WPA2 is vulnerable to rainbow table attacks; relatively long passphrases are both easier to remember for mere mortals and less likely to be broken by a rainbow table attack.
> The entire point is that humans aren't very good at doing this.
How true is this? Because everyone that tells me "I have a bad memory" doesn't even know the most basic tricks.
> This is actually exactly the kind of scenario where using pass phrases makes the most sense
I agree, actually - I don't mind if my neighbour does remember it, I was just trying to illustrate that things that are easy to remember are remembered by accident, and things like that are easily forgotten without effort.
The entire point is that humans aren't very good at doing this.
>(Note: This doesn't really apply to me or most of us here in most cases, but for example my WiFi password is of the form "Mycatsname9" and yet my neighbour still has to ask me for it whenever her phone forgets it)
This is actually exactly the kind of scenario where using pass phrases makes the most sense. WPA2 is vulnerable to rainbow table attacks; relatively long passphrases are both easier to remember for mere mortals and less likely to be broken by a rainbow table attack.