{"id":6,"date":"2008-04-18T13:27:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/2008\/4?p=6"},"modified":"2008-04-18T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:27:59","slug":"computer-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Computer Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#39;s virtually connected world computer security is more important than locking your car.&nbsp; Some basic guidelines are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>password minimum length of 8 characters.&nbsp; Passwords with less than 8 characters can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;hs=2nr&amp;defl=en&amp;q=define:Brute+Force&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=glossary_definition&amp;ct=title\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;hs=2nr&amp;defl=en&amp;q=define:Brute+Force&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=glossary_definition&amp;ct=title\">brute forced<\/a> (systematic guessing) in less than 5 minutes.&nbsp; 8 character passwords will take a very long time. <\/li>\n<li>password of mixed alphanumeric characters.&nbsp; The first step in breaking a password is using dictionary words because everyone uses dictionary words.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use personaly related information for your password like date of birth, dog&#39;s name, street address etc.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#39;t give your password out to anyone.&nbsp; Not even your bank!&nbsp; <span style=\"font-size: small; color: #800080\"><strong>NO EXCEPTIONS!<\/strong><\/span> <\/li>\n<li>Please do not use the same password for more than 5 years.&nbsp; Some recommend changing passwords every three months.&nbsp; My goal is every two to three years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, I recommend reading the following articles:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lolminimal.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/26\/minimal-security-part-1-it-doesnt-have-to-be-hard\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/lolminimal.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/26\/minimal-security-part-1-it-doesnt-have-to-be-hard\/\">Minimal Security part 1:&nbsp; It doesn&#39;t have to be hard&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lolminimal.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/12\/minimal-security-part-2-going-all-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/lolminimal.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/12\/minimal-security-part-2-going-all-in\/\">Minimal Security part2:&nbsp; Going all in<\/a>&nbsp; (Having all your eggs in one basket.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">In today&#39;s virtually connected world computer security is more important than locking your car.&nbsp; Some basic guidelines are: password minimum length of 8 characters.&nbsp; Passwords with less than 8 characters can be brute forced (systematic guessing) in less than 5 minutes.&nbsp; 8 character passwords will take a very long time. password of mixed alphanumeric characters.&nbsp; The first step in breaking&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/?p=6\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}