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The Big Debate: Have You Changed Your Passwords Since Gawker Got Hacked? What Movie Are You Cheering to Win a Golden Globe?

This week the nominees for the Golden Globe awards were announced and as usual, they were an eclectic mix. We asked a few people which movie they wanted to see take a trophy home:

On Tuesday, Bravo's The Fashion Show had the Real Housewives of New Jersey and Orange County appear as clients, continuing a tradition of Bravo promoting other NBC shows on their reality competition programming. With that in mind, we took a look at future crossover challenges that may be coming soon:

Finally, the Gawker network of websites (which includes Jezebel, Deadspin, io9 and Kotaku) was hacked, with some users' names and passwords getting published. That led to further problems as people who used the same password on multiple sites found their accounts hacked, including Gawker founder Nick Denton.

The hacking of Gawker has started a discussion on how people can protect themselves online. The Wall Street Journal took a look at the user data and found that the most common passwords included easy-to-guess entries like "123456" and "password".

We asked a few Gawker users if they had changed their passwords since the site was hacked. One io9 user, HottCopGC, noted that she had a major task ahead of her:


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