I chop my passwords from phrases. For example: "Don Bose #1 has the most postings!" becomes DB#1htmp!. I don't know if the hackers have worked this into their systems, but symbol substitutions such as "2" for "to" and "@" for "at" meet the special character requirement.
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Windows on-screen magnifier: ON-<WinIcon>+<+/-> (unshifted); OFF-<WinIcon>+<ECS>
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