{"id":296,"date":"2013-03-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2013\/03\/07\/oreilly-media-book-take-control-of-your-passwords\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:00:00","slug":"oreilly-media-book-take-control-of-your-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2013\/03\/07\/oreilly-media-book-take-control-of-your-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly Media book: Take Control of Your Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/oreilly\/newbooks\/~3\/b6XzVN1EzUg\/\">Take Control of Your Passwords<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9781615424184\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covers.oreilly.com\/images\/9781615424184\/bkt.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\nImprove your passwords without losing your cool, thanks to Joe Kissell&#8217;s expert advice. Start on the path to modern password security by watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C9Netv5vjTg\">Joe&#8217;s intro video<\/a> and by checking out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takecontrolbooks.com\/news\/joe-of-tech-on-passwords\">&#8220;Joe of Tech&#8221;<\/a> comic in the Contents &amp; Intro tab below (scroll down!).<br \/>\nRead the book to understand the problems and apply a real-world strategy that includes choosing a password manager, auditing your existing passwords, and dealing with situations where automated tools can&#8217;t help.<br \/>\n&#8220;Awesome. You did an amazing job breaking it down. This should be mandatory reading.&#8221; &#8211;Rich Mogull, CEO at Securosis<br \/>\nThis ebook helps you overcome frustrations that arise when attempting to design a strategy for dealing with the following password problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9-character passwords with upper- and lowercase letters, digits, and punctuation are NOT strong enough.<\/li>\n<li>You CANNOT turn a so-so password into a great one by tacking a punctuation character and number on the end.<\/li>\n<li>It is NOT safe to use the same password everywhere, even if it&#8217;s a great password.<\/li>\n<li>A password is NOT immune to automated cracking because there&#8217;s a delay between login attempts.<\/li>\n<li>Even if you&#8217;re an ordinary person without valuable data, your account may STILL be hacked, causing you problems.<\/li>\n<li>You can NOT manually devise &#8220;random&#8221; passwords that will defeat potential attackers.<\/li>\n<li>Just because a password doesn&#8217;t appear in a dictionary, that does NOT necessarily mean that it&#8217;s adequate.<\/li>\n<li>It is NOT a smart idea to change your passwords every month.<\/li>\n<li>Truthfully answering security questions like &#8220;What is your mother&#8217;s maiden name?&#8221; does NOT keep your data more secure.<\/li>\n<li>Adding a character to a 10-character password does NOT make it 10 percent stronger.<\/li>\n<li>Easy-to-remember passwords like &#8220;correct horse battery staple&#8221; will NOT solve all your password problems.<\/li>\n<li>All password managers are NOT pretty much the same.<\/li>\n<li>Your passwords will NOT be safest if you never write them down and keep them only in your head.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Joe handles a confusing and scary subject more clearly and calmly than I would have thought possible. I&#8217;ll be recommending this book to just about everybody I know.&#8221; &#8211;William Porter, database developer, author, photographer<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/oreilly\/newbooks\/~4\/b6XzVN1EzUg\" width=\"1\">\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Control of Your Passwords: Improve your passwords without losing your cool, thanks to Joe Kissell&#8217;s expert advice. Start on the path to modern password security by watching Joe&#8217;s intro video and by checking out our &#8220;Joe of Tech&#8221; comic in the Contents &amp; Intro tab below (scroll down!). 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