Juha Saarinen: Password hell enough to drive you crackers 4 May, 2021 05:35 AM 5 minutes to read Passphrases are now a fact of life, replacing easy to crack passwords. Photo / 123RF OPINION Thursday is annual World Password Day that will be celebrated by the collective groaning of hundreds of millions of computer users who just want to log in and not worry about difficult to remember passphrases. Because that's what you have to use, a phrase and not a secret word. Use a word and the one who shall pass is the hacker with a custom-built brute-force credentials cracking computer with graphics card clusters that can issue hundreds of millions of guesses per second in parallel.