This seems like poor advice. If people have questions, they should be addressed, not "oh don't worry your pretty little head, smart people came up with this."

This seems like poor advice. If people have questions, they should be addressed, not "oh don't worry your pretty little head, smart people came up with this." Like the discussion about app-specific passwords above was very informative to me... all it takes is one of those getting sniffed or read off disk and someone can suck down all your email. Not exactly "fire and forget" security.