How's your password doing these days?

The below is a synopsis of an article. This is my synopsis of the synopsis - what's your password? Geeks can read the full article, non-geeks can read my tips for making a secure password (you know, a password that is not password1!)

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January 21, The Register – (International) RockYou hack reveals easy-to-crack passwords. Analysis of the 32 million passwords recently exposed in the breach of social media application developer RockYou last month provides further proof that consumers routinely use easy to guess login credentials. ... The five most common passwords used were 123456, 12345, 123456789, Password, and iloveyou. The trivial nature of the top ten RockYou passwords is bad enough, but worse is that nearly 50 per cent of passwords records exposed by the RockYou breach used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys), Imperva discovered. ... 
Source article for the geek in you.