> Use a different password for everything.

Yeah sure. It's bad enough now using one of my three four favourite passwords. I have a thing about deleting cookies (probably paranoid, I don't like them sending me things that I don't want) and once managed to delete a load of useful ones - it took me ages to order my shopping, stationery and read the New York Times online - I must have been through a bad patch. My trick is using a mixture of place names in a language known to Maverick and numbers that seem to make sense at the time - and there's the rub - I must have gone through a bad patch in word/letter combinations at some point.

Isn't there software around that can capture all keystrokes? I assume (and hope) that it cannot be used remotely. it wouldn't be too difficult to work the passwords out as they would usually follow some kind of ID.