You're using a dictionary password and subsequently reusing that password on multiple sites.... and you're mad at LinkedIn for allowing your account to be compromised? Umm.
The real problem is the way that we do passwords. Passwords should either be managed by your browser or your operating system. When you log in to your computer, you log in one time with a public key. And then your OS/Browser automatically logs you into every website you visit by signing challenges instead of by giving your private key (that's essentially what a password boils down to) to everyone who wants to verify your identity.
The same is true for credit cards.
If we want a more secure web, we will replace the password system. It's difficult to use passwords correctly, even if you have the common sense (which a lot of people don't, because they just don't realize it's a bad idea).
It should be a higher priority. People are clearly losing money and losing quality of life over today's insecure password infrastructure.
Right now there are many solutions for password management. Free and open source, free and closed source, paid and closed source, enterprise. You name it! "Good password hygiene" is fairly ubiquitous amongst people on this site.
With that said, credential management[0] is coming. Google and Apple want to kill LastPass, 1password, and all these companies, and they definitely will AFAICT.
Odd way of phrasing it. It's more accurate to say "you're pointing out that they have put themselves at risk through a number of insecure practises". It's not so much blaming a girl for getting raped; more "don't walk around an area that suffers from high crime, at night, using an expensive phone and getting a laptop and flashy camera and act surprised if you get robbed".
I, too, may even have used that pw on twitter (RIP both followers of my 4 tweet history). Again, because I don't really care.
I have essentially been re-using passwords for 15 years now (although my very first password on my AOL "gandalf" has long been retired), every now and again upgrading my "default strong" and using a the historical weaker ones on things I don't care about/don't trust.
Password Manager is definitely a smarter solution but I can't see myself setting it up.
A mix of laziness, apathy and habit lead me to reuse that password on many sites. But I have 5+ email addresses, tons of shopping accounts, multiple banks, brokers, airlines, hotels, etc. I do use more secure passwords for other sites.
I really can't be bothered into using a password manager, so what's the alternative besides reusing passwords?
The alternative is getting burned by password reuse repeatedly until you can be bothered, I would assume. Alternatively, you could cling to the hope that a more secure and more convenient authentication mechanism gets adopted somewhere in the next decade or two.
I'm not sure calling LinkedIn the shooter in this analogy is completely fair; maybe more like the cop two streets over getting a donut.