I'm sorry, but this latest spree of articles is nonsense. There is nothing wrong with a randomly constructed password or passphrase, and each of these articles

I'm sorry, but this latest spree of articles is nonsense. There is nothing wrong with a randomly constructed password or passphrase, and each of these articles conveniently forget to mention that the tools are only this effective when the service provider doesn't do password authentication properly (e.g. by using bcrypt or scrypt with a high work factor rather than MD5 or SHA-1 to store the password 'fingerprints.')