CrabCake
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I see why you didn't try to explain it to me. It's somewhat complicated these days to crack a good password.
Thanks for the enlightenment.
Actually, it's the opposite. It's extremely easy. Software like haschat will crack passwords for you automatically with minimal effort on your part. It just takes a lot of processing power to do that. That's why we use strong passwords with lower case, upper case, special characters, etc.
If you point haschat at a password file it will start brute forcing all the passwords and you will see all the easy ones start popping up almost instantly. Ones like the "treebluenight" will start popping up in a few minutes while ones like Tr33bluen1ght might take days or weeks to start appearing. The goal is that it would take so long to ever get to yours that the hacker would be satisfied with all the ones he already cracked and would quit cracking passwords before he gets to yours. Ideally, your password is long enough and random enough that it would take decacdes and be prohibitively expensive to crack. These days you can achieve that with about 16 characters if you include upper case, lower case, digits, and special characters.