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Comment by ScottBurson

But there's a long tail of song lyrics. If you pick something obscure, the odds of the attacker even having heard of it become very small (particularly if the attacker is from a different culture than your own). Pick something arty and incomprehensible, and the odds against someone else accidentally stringing those words together in some other context become astronomical.

For instance, I'd wager no cracker has ever heard the song containing the line "We barter images on the matrix". And that's one of the more intelligible lines from the song in question (from a 1978 album by the little-known prog-rock group Happy The Man). Pull it up on Google and you'll see what I mean.

If you don't know the song, of course, lines from it will be about as hard to remember as randomly chosen words. But if you do know it, you have a good mnemonic.

parent ScottBurson 15 years ago

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