{"id":2692,"date":"2013-04-18T07:06:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2013-04-18T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:06:04","slug":"more-and-better-secure-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/more-and-better-secure-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"(More and Better) Secure Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So hackers and attackers have been on the loose against self-hosted WordPress installations.<\/p>\n<p><b>This post applies to you&#8230;even if you do not use WordPress!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here with a message for you&#8230;not about WordPress&#8230;but about <b>practicing safe passwords<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/pitching-pitiful-passwords\/\" title=\"Get rid of common passwords!\">Pitching Pitiful Passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was reminded of a simpler, yet more effective, password tactic: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/password_strength.png\" title=\"larger view\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/password_strength.png\" alt=\"a persuasive cartoon about password strength\" title=\"Long simple passwords are better!\" style=\"display:block; margin:1em auto; width:370px; height:300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Long, simple passwords<\/strong> are better, more effective, and easier to remember!<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I cannot personally vouch for the accuracy or effectiveness of the information conveyed in the above cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>Can you?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long and simple is better and more effective&#8230;even than sentence-based with symbols and numbers<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[993,424,716],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-blogging","tag-security","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Hq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}