Episode 5: How to Make the BEST Password For Your Kid(s)

Apetech Website: https://www.apetech.me/ Welcome to episode 5 of the Apetech Podcast. We just crossed over listens to our podcast and super excited to hit our goal of 50! To everyone that’s listened, thank you very much.  If there’s a topic that you want us to cover, please let me know.   You can call in your questions or email me at [email protected].   https://anchor.fm/apetech/message Twitter:  @apetechda In this episode, we are going to talk about passwords for your kids With most, if not all students going to school remotely, all of them now need to have a password to utilize their digital tools.  If your student is anything like my child, then you know that they aren’t very good at dealing with passwords.  They simply don’t understand the importance of a password and how critical it is to not share that password. If your kids are like mine, their minds are in their minecraft and roblox world.  Their perspective on life is innocent and pure.  They don’t understand the perils of the internet.  Thus, it is so important to teach your kids about the dangers of the internet.  They need to be taught how to utilize this powerful tool in such a way that they are safe.  And it all starts with passwords.  Well not really, but for the purposes of this episode, let’s assume that passwords should be one of the first things kids need to learn about. There are some options currently available on the internet, but after looking at them, I wouldn’t personally recommend them.  The passwords are too “simple” and not very secure in my honest opinion.  Services like dinopass create easy to remember passwords for kids, but they can be cracked in seconds.  Don’t use that service, if you want a very secure, yet simple to use password for your kids, keep listening. Here’s the takeaway: Students need safe, strong, but EASY to remember passwords. Like all good passwords, the same principles that apply to adults works for students.  So, what makes a good password for students?  Let’s take a deep dive. We’ll start with the most important part.  Passwords need to be easy to remember.  That means that the password needs to be something memorable to them.  This means that it’s something that’s important to them.  So, the first thing to do when creating a strong password is to pick something that is special to you.  This should be fairly easy to determine for your kid because kids are passionate about a lot of things.  Pick one and let’s move on to the next phase. Passwords that are long in character length, make for the most secure passwords.  Just because a password is long, doesn’t mean it’s hard to remember.  When you combine it with the first suggestion, you’ll get a long password that kids can remember easily.  For example, these passwords can be passphrases or sentences that they can remember. Finally, add a number or special character to make things a little more complex, but still just as easy to remember. After all of that here’s a good password for you kid. MyFavoriteIsSpid3rM@n! This password is easy to remember, very long, and has special characters, capitalization and numbers.  You have officially created the best password your child can have. No more needing to write it down. Now all you’ll have to worry about is teaching your child how to type! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/apetech/support