CNBC's secure password tutorial sent your password in the clear to 30 advertisers
by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing on (#18RCT)
CNBC's Big Crunch blog put up a well-intentioned, but disastrously designed tutorial on secure password creation, which invited users to paste their passwords into a field to have them graded on how difficult it would be to guess them. (more")