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If the great Gawker Media hack of 2010 taught us anything, it was that a frighteningly large amount of us are still using terrible, easy-to-guess passwords. According to the Wall Street Journal, the most popular passwords to log-in to Gawker Media’s suite of sites were “123456” and “password.”

Seriously people? In today’s age, this simply will not do.

Not only should you have different passwords for each site you frequent, but they should be unique combinations of letters, numbers, and characters. And if you’re using some pattern of keys as they appear next to each other on the keyboard, you are just begging the Internet to spam your friends with sketchy deals on electronics and send a bevy of credit cards baring your name straight to Lagos.

The designers at platfor45 have come up with an intriguing and humorous solution to encourage users to create original passwordsat least for heterosexual male users who had a thing for the princess from Super Mario Brothers and all her blocky NES seductiveness.

Their Naked Password plug-in encourages users to choose strong passwords by featuring an 8-bit girl gone wild who sheds more articles of clothes on the way to unguessability. It’s a fun little add-on with a useful purpose.

If only Gawker had this classy little lady on their sites, so much damage might have been averted.

Alas.

via unplggd