password security

Just worked out something amazing. When creating passwords you are often told that you need to use upper, lower case, special characters and numbers as part of the password. I have just worked out that this does NOT add much security at all. Much better to have a longer password. Calculations...

One time I was logging into this forum and accidentally started to type my password into the box for my name. All I had to do was type the first letter of my password and the entire word appeared. Fortunately no on was around, but I realized that anyone could just start typing letters into the...