How do you choose a really tough, hard to crack password?

hmmmmmmmmm try using a different language withe umlauts or tildas or whatever

Think of some phrases and pick the first letters of the phrases to form the password. For example, consider "I Like My Friend BeautyQueen". You can form a password "ilmfbq". That would be a random password difficult enough, but easy to remember. If you mix upper and lower case alternatively, say, "IlMfBq", it becomes more tougher. Think of changing some of the letters to equivalent numbers. I consider the following equivalents "b-6", "l-1", "o-0", "q-9", "s-5". So, my password can be "I1MfB9". You have to make some trade-off between usability and security. I have written a post in my blog titled "5 simple steps to stronger password". If you are interested, you can read it at http://assessmyblog.blogspot.com/5-simple-steps-to-stronger-password.html Thanks.

as long as you have a lengthy password with at least 10 characters in total comprising of higher and lower case letters, numbers and symbols mixed in then it would take too much time for any hacker to break that password using a brute force attack or any other method.

Here's a review I wrote on CNET awhile back, that lays out how I approach Internet security and identity theft prevention: http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-3513_7-0-10.html?forumID=104&messageID=2520910&threadID=230670