{"id":92,"date":"2012-09-17T20:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-01-05T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:07:01","slug":"gone-are-the-days-of-clever-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/gone-are-the-days-of-clever-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone are the days of clever passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/stickynote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93\" title=\"stickynote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/stickynote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a>Remember when &#8220;password&#8221; and &#8220;monkey&#8221; were the popular passwords for most? Well, I&#8217;d like to think we moved on, but we haven&#8217;t. We thought we&#8217;d get crafty and outsmart those that wanted to hack our accounts with more sophisticated passwords that use the number &#8220;3&#8221; instead of an &#8220;E&#8221; or the number &#8220;1&#8221; for an &#8220;I&#8221;. Turns out that system is also very flawed. A recent article from Lifehacker (<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5937303\/your-clever-password-tricks-arent-protecting-you-from-todays-hackers\" target=\"_blank\">Your Clever Password Tricks Aren&#8217;t Protecting You from Today&#8217;s Hackers<\/a>) covers it well in addition to a SecurityNow! podcast (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/sn\/sn-366.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Password Cracking Update: The Death of Clever<\/a>) for those that prefer their learning in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when &#8220;password&#8221; and &#8220;monkey&#8221; were the popular passwords for most? Well, I&#8217;d like to think we moved on, but we haven&#8217;t. We thought we&#8217;d get crafty and outsmart those that wanted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[42,41,13,12],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-web","tag-grc","tag-hacker","tag-lifehacker","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestpasswords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}