re: #15 Killgore Trout

How is this Gawker’s fail for getting hacked? Kinda like blaming the victim, isn’t it?

Not at all. It’s entirely Gawker’s fault if passwords were stolen from them. No remotely competent person stores user passwords in a database. You store a hash of the password created using a one-way algorithm. You can convert an entered password to the hash for comparison, but the hash can not be converted to the password. This is very basic stuff.