Not sure I understand the advantages of passphrases that string together common words and names. Presumably a password cracker could look for long strings of co

Not sure I understand the advantages of passphrases that string together common words and names. Presumably a password cracker could look for long strings of common words, too. Snowden emphasizes using words that aren't in the dictionary, but proper names of historical figures are in certain e-dictionaries (my android keyboard's auto-complete dictionary for instance includes Margaret and Thatcher).