I wouldn't be surprised if most had a harder password for their email If we were talking about Hacker News, or other programmer-oriented website, then I'd be i

I wouldn't be surprised if most had a harder password for their email If we were talking about Hacker News, or other programmer-oriented website, then I'd be inclined to agree. Unfortunately, Gawker is all about lowest-common-denominator fluff, and so attracts a lot of (for lack of better term, and please don't mistake this for hubris) "normal people." Normal people don't give nearly as much consideration to these matters as we do, and I'd expect a good majority of these people use the same password (or two) for damn near everything. It's not uncommon for even technical people to reuse the same low-level passwords across multiple sites[1], but where we understand the importance of our email accounts as being a master key, regular folk aren't always so knowledgeable. [1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/05/i-just-logged-in-as-you-how-it-happened.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/05/i-just-logged-in-as...