Quote from: crumplesveltskin on April 13, 2012, 06:11 pmHi grahamgreene, I have created a much longer/more complex password this time around. Typing in 30 characters blindly would be frustrating I think (or is it better to copy/paste? Have read something about keystroke recording). I've bookmarked the official page and even created a dummy account to log in with (before using my real user/pass) to make sure it's not a phishing page. Good to know that 'silkroad' will always start the URL. I am definitely taking things a bit more seriously after that experience.Typing in such a long password would certainly be frustrating, but why not make it a sentence? Perhaps a quote from your favorite movie with some of the letters replaced with numbers? 3 for E, 0 for o etc. e.g. "L0ng p455w0rd5 g1v3 3xc3113nt 53cur1ty" - "Long passwords give excellent security". The Silk Road password also accepts spaces, and these are a necessity in my opinion. The more times that you type it, the easier it is to remember and it almost becomes second nature. A dummy account is not necessary if you just remember that silkroad will be at the start of the URL. It takes a huge amount of hashing power and a number of weeks to achieve that with an onion URL, so a phisher wouldn't spend that much time and resources on it - it would only work a couple of times before someone came to the forums here to tell others about it, or another phisher changed the link to his own URL.As for copying and pasting, most keyloggers will also save anything copied to the clipboard (which is where your copied item is temporarily stored), so your best defense there is to have your computer's security up to scratch.Have a read through the security forum and take your time - read up on vendors on the forums before purchasing and always stay in escrow and you'll do just fine. ;)