{"id":5277,"date":"2010-04-15T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2010-04-15T03:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:00:02","slug":"just-as-i-suspected-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5277","title":{"rendered":"Just as I Suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You were right: It\u2019s a waste of your time. A study says much computer security advice is not worth following.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/04\/11\/please_do_not_change_your_password\/\">Please do not change your password<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[U]sers are admonished to change passwords regularly, but redoing them is not an effective preventive step against online infiltration unless the cyber attacker (or evil colleague) who steals your sign-in sequence waits to employ it until after you\u2019ve switched to a new one, Herley wrote. That\u2019s about as likely as a crook lifting a house key and then waiting until the lock is changed before sticking it in the door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You change passwords for much the same reason you would change codes \u2014 to keep ahead of someone who is stealing periodically updated information from you.  But it&#8217;s not going to help protect static information, like your credit card information and bank account numbers.  Once you&#8217;re hacked, that will be compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were right: It\u2019s a waste of your time. A study says much computer security advice is not worth following. Please do not change your password [U]sers are admonished to change passwords regularly, but redoing them is not an effective &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}