If there's anything I don't like involving my self in it's politics. I believe it's necessary though. Recently there have been two pieces of legislation roaming around D.C. that have worried me both professionally and personally. The first and least scary is the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In name it sounds good, piracy of intellectual property does harm artists who create movies, music, art and authors who write, and anyone else who creates digital/digitizable works. In reality it works out like this: If someone accuses your website of infringing copyright, your DNS entry (this converts www.tsaot.com to the address 64.233.161.104 which is the address where this site is hosted) will be blocked and your site made unreachable.

I've tried to write this article several times now and it always turns into some sort of lecture that no-one will want to read. The short and sweet of it is that you're not protecting your passwords from people anymore. You're protecting them from computers that are scraping the Internet for whatever they can find. To do this there are a few things you need to keep in mind.