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He is so pretentious. He goes on about how great Open ID is and yet talks about how he has all these different passwords and uses a "throwaway" password for admin access to his application. Great. Then he posts something about how "brute for is for dummies" when using bad passwords is really what's for dummies.

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I think he even had a post about how passphrase is better than a password. But I may be mistaken and I am just to lazy at the moment to search for it :(

Passwords vs. Pass Phrases: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000342.html

Easier on the user, harder for hackers: that's a total no-brainer. I've adopted passphrases across the board on all the systems I use.

I guess the anonymous person discovered his passphrase?

I think so, and I think the passphrase included dictionary words which is why the anonymous person said as much.

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