{"id":1851,"date":"2014-02-04T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:22:26","slug":"argh-which-website-accounts-do-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/argh-which-website-accounts-do-i-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Argh, which website accounts do I have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago my problem was how to manage the passwords of 200+ on-line accounts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gotten worse. Now I don&#8217;t remember what on-line accounts I have! Just now Paypal indicated to me that I apparently used to have a Paypal account with a certain e-mail address (that I&#8217;ve used for 10+ years). I have no recollection that I ever had such an account. Fortunately it does seem to have been closed. But what if it hadn&#8217;t been closed?<\/p>\n<p>Just how am I supposed to keep track of all on-line accounts that I have over the long term? If I can&#8217;t even remember Paypal, how should I remember dozens of odd retailers from whom I ordered something once in the past almost 20 years since e-commerce became common?<\/p>\n<p>All of them are potential security problems. For example, I can&#8217;t really reset any passwords on accounts that I can&#8217;t remember. And I can&#8217;t determine whether I am affected if site X is compromised, if I can&#8217;t remember whether I ever had an account there.<\/p>\n<p>How do you manage this? I&#8217;m sure lost &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago my problem was how to manage the passwords of 200+ on-line accounts. It&#8217;s gotten worse. Now I don&#8217;t remember what on-line accounts I have! Just now Paypal indicated to me that I apparently used to have a Paypal account with a certain e-mail address (that I&#8217;ve used for 10+ years). I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,60,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-digital_identity","category-security","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}