{"id":6363,"date":"2018-05-03T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2018-05-08T06:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T10:04:17","slug":"happy-world-password-day-celebrating-a-momentous-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/happy-world-password-day-celebrating-a-momentous-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy World Password Day! Celebrating a Momentous Holiday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>9 GIFs that sum up our love\/hate relationship with passwords<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s World Password Day today and the internet\u2019s having a flood of articles telling you to make your password longer, thicker, broader, taller, stronger, bulkier, sturdier, muscular\u2026 that actually sounds a lot like my spam folder. Either way, there&#8217;s no shortage of articles today talking about good password hygiene and password best practices. But let\u2019s be honest here, that&#8217;s boring.<span id=\"newline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to be reminded and warned about your weak passwords today because that happens almost every day. Whether it\u2019s that IT guy in the office, that nerd friend or your banking website; a single day doesn\u2019t pass without getting reminded about weak passwords and their consequences. Let\u2019s be honest here, as well-intentioned as they all are, they can (and do) become frustrating after a point.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, passwords are critical in the precarious world of the internet, but you don\u2019t need to tell me that every day. We deserve a breather, don\u2019t we? So, here it is. Here\u2019s a light-hearted take on our love-hate relationship with passwords, told in the language of millenials: GIFs.<\/p>\n<h2>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When a site tells you that your username or password is wrong but doesn\u2019t tell you which one:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/specific-couldyoube-gif-8866815\">Could You Be Specific GIF<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/couldyoubespecific-gifs\">Couldyoubespecific GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you tell your dumb password to the IT person in the office<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/dead-lol-laughing-crying-stanley-gif-4515933\">Dead Lol GIF<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/dead-gifs\">Dead GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you type in your password couple of times, it shows incorrect and then you try to reset your password, but it shows \u201cYour new password can\u2019t be your old password\u201d:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/what-more-do-you-want-tyrese-gif-10459226\">What More Do You Want Tyrese GIF<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/whatmoredoyouwant-gifs\">Whatmoredoyouwant GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you\u2019ve entered incorrect password way too many times and you\u2019re left with one last attempt.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/funny-lol-ne3xrYlWtQFtC\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When the password you thought was the password wasn\u2019t and the password that you thought wasn\u2019t the password turned out to be your password.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/good-god-uDRezGbZW1uo0\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When your partner asks you Facebook password and you don\u2019t know what to do.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/chloe-concerned-kaq6GnxDlJaBq\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you read \u201ca minimum of 1 lower case letter [a-z], a minimum of 1 upper case letter [A-Z]. a minimum of 1 numeric character [0-9] and a minimum of 1 special character.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/barney-stinson-neil-patrick-harris-suicide-jSxK33dwEMbkY\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you manage to guess someone\u2019s password<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/hacker-MM0Jrc8BHKx3y\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>9. \u00a0\u00a0 When you see your stupid old password. You to your younger self:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/stupid-willferrell-idiot-gif-4553393\">Stupid GIF<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/stupid-gifs\">Stupid GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Happy World Password Day to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 GIFs that sum up our love\/hate relationship with passwords It\u2019s World Password Day today and the internet\u2019s having a flood of articles telling you to make your password longer,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hashing-out-cyber-security","post-without-tags"],"views":6125,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bigstock-Calendar-With-Words-Time-To-Ch-228480820.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}