{"id":2720,"date":"2013-12-02T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2013-12-02T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:43:08","slug":"password-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/02\/password-sanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Password Sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Katie Humprey&#8217;s article on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/230867891.html?page=all&#038;prepage=1&#038;c=y#continue\">password sanity<\/a>&#8221; is making syndication rounds in newspapers (including our local Plain Dealer). I had the opportunity to help give the writer our take on password security and provided the end quote for the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Derek Meister, a Geek Squad agent, said it\u2019s important not to make security so complex that people get overwhelmed and default to insecure habits, like repeating simple passwords. He suggests thinking about digital security much like home security. It\u2019s not perfect, but it can be a deterrent to those aiming to make trouble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not looking to make your house into Fort Knox. You\u2019re looking to make your house hard enough to get into that somebody will say, \u2018I\u2019m going to go elsewhere,\u2019?\u201d Meister said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same with passwords.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Katie Humprey&#8217;s article on &#8220;password sanity&#8221; is making syndication rounds in newspapers (including our local Plain Dealer). I had the opportunity to help give the writer our take on password security and provided the end quote for the article: Derek Meister, a Geek Squad agent, said it\u2019s important not to make security &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/02\/password-sanity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Password Sanity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,4],"tags":[68,42,141,449],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-geek-squad","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}