{"id":5495,"date":"2019-09-26T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T13:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2019-09-26T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T13:49:20","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5495","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>As a counterpoint, Troy Hunt recently posted this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictions-and-why-they-dont-matter\/\">https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictions-and-why-they-dont-matter\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting quote from the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Password Limits on Banks Don&#39;t Matter<\/p>\n<p>That very first tweet touched on the first reason why it doesn&#39;t matter: banks aggressively lock out accounts being brute forced. They have to because there&#39;s money at stake and once you have a financial motivator, the value of an account takeover goes up and consequently, so does the incentive to have a red hot go at it. Yes, a 5-digit PIN only gives you 100k attempts, but you&#39;re only allowed two mistakes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>September 26, 2019 at 09:29AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/security\/comments\/d96t5z\/nice_one_blizzard_guess_my_password_was_too\/f1i1sz8?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a counterpoint, Troy Hunt recently posted this: https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictions-and-why-they-dont-matter\/ An interesting quote from the post: Password Limits on Banks Don&#39;t Matter That very first tweet touched on the first reason why it doesn&#39;t matter: banks aggressively lock out accounts being brute forced. They have to because there&#39;s money at stake and once you have a &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5495\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}