{"id":11412,"date":"2008-11-01T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11412"},"modified":"2008-11-01T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T17:32:27","slug":"passwords-are-like-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/01\/passwords-are-like-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Passwords are like women"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this was posted by someone else somewhere else before (probably it was), but that&#8217;s what I came up with yesterday, while explaining our password policy to one of the (male) colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Passwords are like women:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you should have as many of them as you can<\/li>\n<li>you should change them as often as you can<\/li>\n<li>you should never share them with another man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Judging by reaction, I got the point across.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this was posted by someone else somewhere else before (probably it was), but that&#8217;s what I came up with yesterday, while explaining our password policy to one of the (male) colleagues. Passwords are like women: you should have as many of them as you can you should change them as often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/01\/passwords-are-like-women\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Passwords are like women<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,133,62],"tags":[2418,139,1633,200,909,17],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-humor","tag-office","tag-passwords","tag-security","tag-women","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21491,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/10\/lastpass-now-tells-you-which-heartbleed-affected-passwords-to-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":11412,"position":0},"title":"LastPass Now Tells You Which Heartbleed-Affected Passwords to Change","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 10, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"LastPass Now Tells You Which Heartbleed-Affected Passwords to Change","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"lastpass","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lastpass-500x281.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":27803,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/26\/passwords-evolved-authentication-guidance-for-the-modern-era\/","url_meta":{"origin":11412,"position":1},"title":"Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era\" is a good collection of guidelines and concerns for password management in the modern day. 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