{"id":77,"date":"2016-10-30T22:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T22:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2022-03-05T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T20:34:33","slug":"a-guitarists-guide-to-overcoming-obnoxious-password-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/30\/a-guitarists-guide-to-overcoming-obnoxious-password-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guitarist’s Guide To Overcoming Obnoxious Password Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annoyed with site’s complexity requirements?<\/p>\n

Are the passwords “password” and “qwe123” no longer cutting it? Are websites not accepting “CorrectHorseBatteryStaple<\/a>” due to lack of complexity?!?<\/p>\n

Here’s a technique I came up with that\u00a0helps me create memorable passwords that still meet obnoxious complexity requirements.<\/p>\n

Pick\u00a0your favorite guitar scale, in this example I’ll use the pentatonic scale.<\/p>\n

\"minorpentatonic2positions\"<\/p>\n

From here, I imagine the keyboard as a fretboard. I will also press shift when I want to play the upper three strings.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

My password is now “farw42FSRQ$!”. I usually call this good, but on some sites where I don’t want to security risk of duplicating a password, I will add the first letter of the site name. So for www.capitalone.com, my password would be “cfarw42FSRQ$!”<\/p>\n

You can continue to apply this technique to learning songs as well. All you have to do is visualize the keyboard as a guitar fretboard. Having my password set as the crux riff to the crazy train solo helped me build the muscle memory needed to play that\u00a0quickly and accurately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annoyed with site’s complexity requirements? Are the passwords “password” and “qwe123” no longer cutting it? Are websites not accepting “CorrectHorseBatteryStaple” due to lack of complexity?!? Here’s a technique I came up with that\u00a0helps me create memorable passwords that still meet obnoxious complexity requirements. Pick\u00a0your favorite guitar scale, in this example I’ll use the pentatonic scale.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","tag-guitar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maxwellmckinnon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}