{"id":894,"date":"2008-11-12T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=894"},"modified":"2008-11-12T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T09:44:00","slug":"how-secure-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2008-11\/894-how-secure-are-you","title":{"rendered":"How secure are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Here is my Important Tip of the Day:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your online accounts, computer files, and personal information are more secure when you use strong passwords to help protect them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/protect\/yourself\/password\/checker.mspx\">Microsoft Password Checker<\/a> to test the strength of your passwords.<\/p>\n<p>There is absolutely no connection to you personally (except your IP address, which the internet already has access to because you are using a browser!). All it does it tell you whether the string of characters you type would make a strong password or not.<\/p>\n<p>The page also gives some advice on what makes a strong password, and a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/protect\/yourself\/password\/create.mspx\">tips page<\/a> on how to come up with a strong password.<\/p>\n<p>Thaks to Bill Pytlovany (aka BillP) in <a href=\"http:\/\/billpstudios.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/passwords-up-for-grabs-on-social.html\">his WinPatrol blog<\/a> for this tip. P.S. If you aren&#8217;t running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winpatrol.com\/\">WinPatrol<\/a>, you really, really should be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my Important Tip of the Day: &#8220;Your online accounts, computer files, and personal information are more secure when you use strong passwords to help protect them.&#8221; You can use the Microsoft Password Checker to test the strength of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2008-11\/894-how-secure-are-you\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[98,116,118,146,6],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer","tag-internet","tag-spam","tag-technology","tag-web-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}