Passwords are a pain. If they are strong, they are hard to remember, and if you can remember them they probably aren‘t strong. Of course, there are all those excellent password managers out there, but using them requires an even stronger password…. No wonder, then, that time and again we hear of people giving up and using simple-to-guess passwords, and of the awful consequences that result.

Stefania Maurizi points us to an Italian journalist, Nicola Porro, who‘s also had enough. He‘s written a blog for the newspaper Il Giornale, in which he describes tech people who keep giving him a hard time over his weak passwords as the „new communists“