Best Slashdot comment I have seen in ages

From this story, Strong Passwords Not As Good As You Think, by some commenter called Rob the Bold:

According to the article (cited by the citation):"Users are frequently reminded of the risks: the popular press often reports on the dangers of ïnancial fraud and identity theft, and most ïnancial institutions have security sections on their web-sites which oïer advice on detecting fraud and good password practices. As to password practices traditionally users have been advised to . . . "

-Choose strong passwords

-Change their passwords frequently

-Never write their passwords down

I would suggest that this is a case for the popular quip: "Pick two".

Personally, I can’t be arsed to change passwords frequently, which makes unique passwords all the more important: Since I rarely change them, I need to make sure that if somebody steals all the passwords from site A, that doesn’t compromise my accounts on sites B through Z. Have I plugged SuperGenPass lately?