How secure is your password? Let's explain it visually

Photo from Flickr. CC-BY licensed Those folks over at CXO have been playing with Google Mail's password strength meter. It turns out - as if you needed to be told - that simple dictionary words such as "princess" or well-known phrases such as "biteme" (yes, Bart Simpson, I'm talking to you) aren't secure at all. You may think that you know it, but the evidence from Rockyou earlier this year doesn't lie - people are still using amazingly simple passwords. Don't be among them.