{"id":10009,"date":"2020-07-20T21:58:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10009"},"modified":"2020-07-20T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:58:21","slug":"genealogy-for-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10009","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy for Passwords?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about anyone else, but remembering all the various passwords I have is crazy. And making up new ones always is a pain as well. This is especially true for sites that do not allow you to reuse passwords for a set amount of time. I&#8217;ve revamped my password approach as I&#8217;m tired of arbitrary ones that I cannot remember and I don&#8217;t want to use anything too easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I went back to genealogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sample &#8220;Grandma&#8221; was Helen Elizabeth Henry born in 1903. There are several passwords I could create from Grandma&#8217;s name:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>heh1903<\/li><li>helen1903<\/li><li>helenelizabeth1903<\/li><li>helenhenry1903<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I can even add the occasional character, ?, !,$, etc. in the same place (helen!henry1903) if that is a necessity. The same thing applies to upper-case letters (Helen!Henry1903). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I go through various ancestors&#8212;not just Grandma using a similar approach. I do alter the naming scheme from one show here. If the site asks me for a number only, I either use birthdates of ancestors, old phone numbers, or other things that would be hard to guess. If Grandma Jones&#8217; old number was 231-456-7890, my password could be grandma4567890.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I particularly like to do this on those sites where I can give myself a password &#8220;hint.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about anyone else, but remembering all the various passwords I have is crazy. And making up new ones always is a pain as well. This is especially true for sites that do not allow you to reuse passwords for a set amount of time. I&#8217;ve revamped my password approach as I&#8217;m tired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}