I think Yahoo's latest troubles with their email service is a perfect opportunity for rewriting the email database with more security awareness. Obviously the hashing algorithm for passwords should become something proprietary and be at least more in line with today's brute force capabilities, so certainly more than 128 bits. It's very easy to do, it's the job of a single person, not an entire company's, and yet it can save the entire company and one of the internet myth of ours.