[EricH]

Originally Posted by Madison

While that's usually been the case, 2008's password was a phrase related to the game. I would imagine that, in some sense, that's marginally less secure -- if only because determining that phrase is contingent upon knowing the information that it's protecting.

As was 2005's and (IIRC) 2007's.

It gets worse for any would-be hackers, because there might or might not be words, characters, and numbers, in any combination of caps and lowercase.

Actually, FIRST released the 2008 password--minus characters--in hint #3, in a scrambled form, and nobody even figured out what the real words were, let alone what else was in there. Tells you something about how strong the encryption is.