{"id":36040,"date":"2018-07-24T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36040"},"modified":"2018-07-04T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T15:20:58","slug":"qotd-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/qotd-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It makes no sense to force users to generate passwords for websites they only log in to once or twice a year. Users realize this: they store those passwords in their browsers, or they never even bother trying to remember them, using the &#8220;I forgot my password&#8221; link as a way to bypass the system completely &mdash; \u00adeffectively falling back on the security of their e-mail account.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Schneier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/10\/security_design.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Security Design: Stop Trying to Fix the User&#8221;, <em>Schneier on Security<\/em><\/a>, 2016-10-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes no sense to force users to generate passwords for websites they only log in to once or twice a year. Users realize this: they store those passwords in their browsers, or they never even bother trying to remember them, using the &#8220;I forgot my password&#8221; link as a way to bypass the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,15],"tags":[58,334],"class_list":["post-36040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36041,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36040\/revisions\/36041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}