{"id":1042,"date":"2022-08-13T22:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T03:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2022-08-13T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T03:45:57","slug":"passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1045 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/password-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/password-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/password-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/password-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/password.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Grump was talking with his wife this evening&#8230; Grumpette???&#8230; and this was our topic:\u00a0 Internet passwords are a minefield through which there is no rational and effective way to navigate.\u00a0 Many people like to use the same password for everything, which we all know is not secure, but even if you want to do that no two sites have the same criteria so you can&#8217;t do that anyway.\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s two-step authentication, which The Grump grudgingly admits is a good security measure, but it&#8217;s a pain in the butt&#8230; especially when my phone is in another room and I have to get up to retrieve it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, most sites aren&#8217;t too bad, you pick a password and go,\u00a0 But some are infuriating.\u00a0 Your &#8220;conversation&#8221; with the website goes something like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 Please choose a password.\u00a0 (And that&#8217;s all it says.)<\/li>\n<li>You:\u00a0 abc<\/li>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 Passwords must be between 8 and 16 characters.<\/li>\n<li>You:\u00a0 abcdefgh<\/li>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 Passwords must contain at least one number.<\/li>\n<li>You:\u00a0 abcdefg1<\/li>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 Passwords must contain at least one capital letter.<\/li>\n<li>You:\u00a0 (sigh)\u00a0 Abcdefg1<\/li>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 Passwords must contain at least one special character.<\/li>\n<li>You:\u00a0 (eye roll) Abcdef1$<\/li>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 No, that that special character.\u00a0 Chose from the following special characters: @<\/li>\n<li>You: (grumble) Abcdef1@<\/li>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 That password is already taken.<\/li>\n<li>You:\u00a0 \ud83d\ude10\u00a0 Abcdef2@<\/li>\n<li>Website:\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 Please proceed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ummm&#8230; <strong>Why didn&#8217;t you list your criteria BEFORE I started all this crap?<\/strong>\u00a0 I mean, really!<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Footnote:\u00a0 I have never used the above passwords, nor even close, nor will I ever.\u00a0 Go away.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grump was talking with his wife this evening&#8230; Grumpette???&#8230; and this was our topic:\u00a0 Internet passwords are a minefield through which there is no rational and effective way to navigate.\u00a0 Many people like to use the same password for everything, which we all know is not secure, but even if you want to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances","category-pet-peeve","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}