{"id":13766,"date":"2015-03-19T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:09","slug":"intel-wants-you-to-forget-your-passwords-you-wont-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/intel-wants-you-to-forget-your-passwords-you-wont-need-them","title":{"rendered":"Intel Wants You to Forget Your Passwords (You Won\u2019t Need Them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"lede\">Passwords, as they <\/span>exist now, don\u2019t work. They are the keys with which we lock up everything from our gaming profiles to our personal documents and financial access, and the truth is they just aren\u2019t that secure. For starters, humans are terrible at choosing passwords. \u201cPassword\u201d and \u201c123456\u201d were still the two most common passwords used in 2014\u2014despite years of warnings against precisely that.<\/p>\n<p>To force us to use more unique, less obvious keys, many of the sites we frequent make us choose passwords that combine letters and numbers, and sometimes even special characters (such as ! or @). But that raises another issue\u2014complexity. With dozens of online accounts per person, it\u2019s hard to keep track of all the different variations of passwords needed to access them. No wonder too many people (55 percent of adults, according to a study from the UK\u2019s Ofcom) still reuse the same password between most, if not all, of the sites they visit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/sponsored?mvi=08ec520b72f34b65a71914c305d6626e\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel \u2014 Wired Passwords, as they exist now, don\u2019t work. They are the keys with which we lock up everything from our gaming profiles to our personal documents and financial access, and the truth is they just aren\u2019t that secure. For starters, humans are terrible at choosing passwords. \u201cPassword\u201d and \u201c123456\u201d were still the two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64799,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/64799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}