{"id":1650,"date":"2008-03-25T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/25\/create-strong-passwords-with-password-meter\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"create-strong-passwords-with-password-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/25\/create-strong-passwords-with-password-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Create strong passwords with Password Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/password_meter_screenshot.gif\" alt=\"password_meter_screenshot.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I shared a <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/11\/microsoft-password-checker\/\">link to the Microsoft Password Checker<\/a>. Well, a couple of days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2068\">Download Squad mentioned<\/a> another, better site, <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2069\">Password Meter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This application is designed to assess the strength of password strings. The instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords, with a hard focus on breaking the typical bad habits of faulty password formulation. Since no official weighting system exists, we created our own formulas to assess the overall strength of a given password.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tested a couple of passwords I use regularly. One scored over 70 but the other one was barely 60. I guess I should come up with something more secure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I shared a link to the Microsoft Password Checker. Well, a couple of days ago Download Squad mentioned another, better site, Password Meter: This application is designed to assess the strength of password strings. The instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords, &#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":[15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommended-web-sites","7":"category-security-tips","8":"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\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}