[curiouscats]

If you read the comments she is no computer security expert. And she accepted the comments of others that passwords that "look like nonsense" are not necessarily best.

My guess is "turning off" relates to not leaving a device that is logged in and open available for someone at school/work/... to stop by and mess with.

She ends up advising 2 factor authentication for email (an old email that was compromised is he guess on the cause of the problem). It is a good article. For advice it might be nice to put a TLDR of: "use 2 factor authentication."