This article isn't very clear to me but I think it's suggesting that people use something like "googlemail-snoopy2" as a password rather than just snoopy2.<p>Any hacker or security researcher would say that a alphanumeric password under ~10 characters is not wise.<p>You don't know what kind of hashing websites are using, and rainbow tables exist for the common types.<p>IMO, the title of this article is irresponsible. A short common password is not a good idea, if mathematicians suggest otherwise then they are wrong.<p>Combining the login process with 2-way auth might be a different story though. I guess technically a password isn't even needed with 2-way auth, but it's good to have.