Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
I’m just gonna go on the record here and state that in 5 to 10 years people are not going to be using passwords or only passwords for their sensitive, run-of-the-mill online stuff.
I’d hope that most places have begun to transition already (my ING accounts have, for example. I think Google is moving this way too):
One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds.