An article on Wired gets read and forgotten. An article about passwords in the NYT gets dismissed as "newfangled kids". Ten million credit cards stolen - one of

An article on Wired gets read and forgotten. An article about passwords in the NYT gets dismissed as "newfangled kids". Ten million credit cards stolen - one of which is yours - gets remembered. Having your FB account manually and maliciously defaced changes your life. That's visibility that no article or book can sell. Consumers are supposed to start using tools like KeePass or LastPass. Adding symbols to a simple 6-character password doesn't help. Adding symbols to a high-entropy 20-character password and never using a password twice makes you basically immune to this kind of thing.