{"id":16320,"date":"2019-09-16T02:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/news-10061\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T02:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:30:20","slug":"news-10061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/news-10061\/","title":{"rendered":"Now let me guess your password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2019\/05\/cw_sharktank_3x2_2400x1600_03-100796354-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This pilot fish IT guy gets a call from an irate client one day complaining (incorrectly) that we had changed his administrative password on his Windows 2000 server without his knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I walked him through the logon process, I asked if the username in the login prompt was \u2018Administrator,\u2019 says fish. \u201cHis reply: \u201cOh, do I need to change that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feed the Shark! <\/strong><em>Send me your true tales of IT life at <a href=\"mailto:sharky@computerworld.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">sharky@computerworld.com<\/a>. You can also subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Shark Newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3432778\/now-let-me-guess-your-password.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2019\/05\/cw_sharktank_3x2_2400x1600_03-100796354-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>This pilot fish IT guy gets a call from an irate client one day complaining (incorrectly) that we had changed his administrative password on his Windows 2000 server without his knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I walked him through the logon process, I asked if the username in the login prompt was \u2018Administrator,\u2019 says fish. \u201cHis reply: \u201cOh, do I need to change that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feed the Shark! <\/strong><em>Send me your true tales of IT life at <a href=\"mailto:sharky@computerworld.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">sharky@computerworld.com<\/a>. You can also subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Shark Newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3432778\/now-let-me-guess-your-password.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[714],"class_list":["post-16320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}