I usually have two passwords: A stupid one that I only use on stupid sites, and a good one that I use on crucial ones (Gmail, Amazon, bank). There's no relationship between the good and bad passwords, so I feel more confident that I'll be unaffected by data breaches.
I checked the torrent and I guess I never made a Gawker account.
The problem with that plan is that one day you will learn that someone who works at Google, or Amazon, or your bank or some other "crucial" site has captured millions of username/password combinations and tried them at all the other crucial sites.
I checked the torrent and I guess I never made a Gawker account.