--- title: This Is the Reason Your Password Will Get Hacked description: This is the reason your password will get hacked, Baltimore schools are using classroom meditation and more. canonical: https://time.com/4514538/this-is-the-reason-your-password-will-get-hacked/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-30T16:00:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:27.376Z article:section: Ideas og:title: This Is the Reason Your Password Will Get Hacked og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4514538/this-is-the-reason-your-password-will-get-hacked/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the Reason Your Password Will Get Hacked twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is the Reason Your Password Will Get Hacked by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 30, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 30, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is the reason your password will get hacked.**](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/09/29/risky-password-practices/) By HelpNetSecurity **2\.** [**Baltimore schools are using classroom meditation — and it’s reducing detentions.**](http://www.upworthy.com/this-school-replaced-detention-with-meditation-the-results-are-stunning) By James Gaines in UpWorthy **3\.** [**Used coffee grounds can help get the lead out of contaminated water.**](http://gizmodo.com/those-used-coffee-grounds-could-get-the-lead-out-of-you-1787005134) By Jennifer Ouellette in Gizmodo **4\.** [**Practice doesn’t make perfect.**](http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/practice-doesnt-make-perfect) By Maria Konnikova in the New Yorker **5\.** [**How librarians are the quiet force behind our information future.**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/09/29/librarians-quietly-shaping-future/ideas/nexus/) By Ian Collins in Zócalo Public Square  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4514538/this-is-the-reason-your-password-will-get-hacked/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4514538/this-is-the-reason-your-password-will-get-hacked/"},"headline":"This Is the Reason Your Password Will Get Hacked","datePublished":"2016-09-30T16:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:27.376Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4514538/this-is-the-reason-your-password-will-get-hacked/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","Water","productivity","cyber security","Library"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4514538/this-is-the-reason-your-password-will-get-hacked/","name":"This Is the Reason Your Password Will Get Hacked"}}]}] ```