A recent article on password security attempted to answer the question, How Important Is Password Complexity? The author, Brien Posey, took a hands-on approach, and came up with a realistic Spy-vs-Spy password recovery scenario. His wife created a password protected file, with nothing more than make it a strong password, but not to go crazy with the password length as her guidelines; he then set about cracking it by brute force. He calculated hed need more than five years to be certain of finishing.”]