{"id":3438,"date":"2012-08-07T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2012-08-07T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:49:18","slug":"breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever stopped to think about how intertwined our various digital identities have become? Our e-mail addresses are linked to Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and any number of other services. And if a malicious hacker gains access to one of those accounts, it&#8217;s easy enough to wreak havoc on an innocent person&#8217;s digital life. <em>Wired<\/em> journalist Mat Honan writes about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2012\/08\/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking\/all\/\">he became the target of a brutal hack<\/a> that wiped his Macbook and iPhone as well as his Gmail account, robbing him of gigs of personal data (including photos of his young daughter). Honan&#8217;s grim tale should remind us that on-line security is not something to be taken lightly. I&#8217;m certainly guilty of using the same password for multiple accounts and I intend to fix that. I&#8217;m also going to activate Gmail&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=180744\">two-step authentication<\/a>. The additional hassle is an acceptable trade-off for keeping disaffected youth out of my private affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever stopped to think about how intertwined our various digital identities have become? Our e-mail addresses are linked to Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and any number of other services. And if a malicious hacker gains access to one of those accounts, it&#8217;s easy enough to wreak havoc on an innocent person&#8217;s digital life. Wired <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3438' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-breach","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}