Wanna protect your password?

• According to Ken Munro, the managing director of SecureTest, you should never use a word that is in the dictionary for your password. (Seemingly online fraudsters have written programs that can try thousands of different passwords and try every word in the dictionary. A good password will mix letters, numbers and punctuation, but the strongest contain non-alphanumeric characters or symbols, of course not all password systems allow them, so we're stuffed.)
• The next generation of chip will pack more than four hundred million transistors into an area the size of a postage stamp. (That is of course computer chip, not french fry chip.)