{"id":20,"date":"2010-02-04T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:14:45","slug":"is-your-password-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/is-your-password-any-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The great password debate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot-124.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21 aligncenterc pic\" alt=\"Your password collection!\" src=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot-124-300x207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot-124-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot-124-432x300.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot-124.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the risk of causing a riot, do you know how many passwords you manage?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you are only a moderately heavy technology user, you will be able to count a bare minimum of 20, that are in frequent use.<\/p>\n<p>The current best practice dictates the you should do the following as a <strong><em>minimum<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use different passwords for different systems &#8211; not the same one for all \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Create these from a complex series of lettters, symbols and numbers &#8211; not using any dictionary word<\/li>\n<li>Are changed frequently.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>So, folks, do <em>you <\/em>do this, with your 20 odd passwords?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nope, didn&#8217;t think so \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>How about this for an alternative policy:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use the &#8216;Lastpass&#8217; or similar service for all non critical passwords.<\/li>\n<li>Learn mnemonics to help remember the rest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Or maybe you all use KeyPass, Password Safe or some other management tool?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of causing a riot, do you know how many passwords you manage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,86],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-password","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}