[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]
“Once upon a time, you might have thought you could get
away with a single user ID and password for all your favorite Web
sites. Then, the popular gossip Web site Gawker was hacked, and
more than a million user IDs and passwords were revealed. Would it
surprise you to know that many people used those same user IDs and
passwords on many other far more important sites such as their bank
accounts?“Ow!
“I could lecture you about how dumb that is, about how you need
to use different passwords for different sites; that you need to
pick passwords other than those old favorites, “123456” and
“password; and how you should change your passwords every month for
every site, but what’s the point?”