{"id":1632,"date":"2008-03-11T12:11:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/11\/microsoft-password-checker\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"microsoft-password-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/11\/microsoft-password-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Password Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Over the last few weeks there have been quite a few sites and newsletters that have linked to a new tool on the Microsoft site called <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2041\">Password Checker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you use strong passwords?<br \/>\nA strong password should appear to be a random string of characters to an attacker. It should be 14 characters or longer, (eight characters or longer at a minimum). It should include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Test the strength of your passwords: Enter a password in the text box to have Password Checker help determine its strength as you type.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a simple utility that does NOT send any information back to Microsoft. Everything is checked locally. I tested several of my passwords, and they all came back Strong, but not Best. They aren&#8217;t long enough I guess.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/microsoft_password_checker.gif\" alt=\"microsoft_password_checker.gif\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks there have been quite a few sites and newsletters that have linked to a new tool on the Microsoft site called Password Checker: Do you use strong passwords? A strong password should appear to be a random string of characters to an attacker. It should be 14 characters or longer, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"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":"","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}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-security-tips","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}