How come we get given such unmemorable password?
Is there any way to change them?

Yes. Click on "my profile" then View/update profile then change the password. Simple. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I don't know if the inmemorable passwords are a server-based choice Ziroc made, or just a security matter. Maybe someone can enlighten me? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

You do remember them after a time. I never changed mine (partly because I rarely need to log back in) and I can still rememeber mine fine...

They are chosen this way because its too easy to brute force a memorable password. With these random ones, they have to try every possible combination.

Anyway, its not hard to memorise a random password, though I can never actualy remember mine, rather I remember the motions needed to input it.

Yeah but who's gonna try and crack an ironworks password? Ooh it's so valuable! [img]tongue.gif[/img] For online banking, sure, use a really random one, but here, nah.

Well it's not that I can't remember mine; I've never changed it. In fact, if I sign up for some new account and I can choose my password myself, then I usually use the one I got here.

Spybot routinely cleans out the cookie with my IW password, so I have to re-enter it fairly often. Remember that given enough time, *any* password can be broken by simply using brute force (start with "a", go all the way to "ZZZZZZZZZ" or whatever). Just consider how valuable the stuff you're trying to protect is... like Vaskez said, for financial stuff, pick a good one... but for other stuff, do you *need* to be that secure?

Ahhh.... you've struck again. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I can't memorize numbers and letters, unless I make it up myself. I just use the same password for everything pretty much anyways. That probably isn't the best thing for security though... ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img] (Not that anything I need a password for is incredibly valuable... [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

Personaly I like near the max number of characters for my passwords, and I use both alphanumeric and non alphanumeric characters in them so they are harder to break..

For less important ones I use a large number strings, normaly two teliphone numbers joined together..