Password Security

As well as having commentary and occasional How-to's from the dark side of security as well as white-hats, I am going to use this as somewhat of a Venting forum for personal observations of idiocy. Okay, first let me say- Passwords are not that hard to remember- unless you have 8+ Numbers, Letters, and symbols in your password, it can very easily be shoulder surfed. Shoulder surfing is an act of seeming to be interested in one's meaningless conversation, in order to see them type their password. For businesses- this can be especially nasty- while that young kid who seems to be so interested in your business plan is watching you login to your systems- you are handing him the foothold to your bottom line. Solution? For 10 dollar's you can prevent all would be surfers: Monitor Mirror