Though of course all the ones built since the collapse of USSR are toned down to say the least.

+ The magic word is also a kind of simple pass. For example my strong pass is uH66&4#dA and my magic word to login to this page is x$$thewesternworld.net so I only have to remember my strong pass, the simple one and check the site domain name. You can create other rules, like changing the top doman, instead of .net just .blog or in this case .steve

One more thing, *never* saving passwords helped me to remember always my pass and practice it a lot, so I can easily remember weird character combinations. For the strong one, use a password generator, humans are predictable. For the rest, invent your own rule.

Also to @steve I suggest to carry a minisd card with an encrypted file system using TrueCrypt. It’s open source and it’s available for all platforms. Create a common FAT filesystem. Copy the software TrueCrypt for all platforms, Linux, Mac and Win, you’ll never know which computer you will have access in a critical scenario. Then create an encrypted filesytem image on that SSD card. Inside that filesystem, put critical cada, like a scan of all your documents, credit cards, list of passwords, contacts, whatever you consider really important. Also there is one more advice to create the filesystem image with truecrypt, if you want to know, I’ll tell you in private. The micro or minissd card is so thin and easy to put in your wallet, inside some part of your clothe when you travel, whatever.