Here are ten simple passwords for kids.
dizzyworm80
hoteye59
palejam32
lumpylamp52
fathand95
cutedime81
swiftbike13
bigparrot84
uglyname93
wackytime43
These are from the site http://www.dinopass.com/
You can get more simple passwords easy to renumber and hard to guess.
No, don't use the ones given above. They are just samples of what the site does.  However, you can take  the concept to make your own. You make a list of words that kids can remember and  put them together. Bu putting the NUMBERS on the end the passwords become are hard  to guess.
What do you think?Its good to start out early teaching kids the concept of complex but simple passwords. My daughters for example is our dogs name followed by numbers and a special character at the end like $.

One thing that goes outside of this subject but important to state is that for user accounts on computers that kids use, its best to have them set up and running as a user and not as a power user or system admin.

My daughters Celeron D 2.8Ghz system running Windows XP Pro Sp3 with Geforce 6200 256MB AGP video card, she is set up as a user. She cant install any software, I have to perform software installations. I am hoping to teach her in the next year to only run as user and hand over the admin password to her and get her use to running with lesser privileges and only raising her privileges when she absolutely has to and then when done lowering them to teach her responsibility in protecting her system on her own.

Getting back to password subject its also best to teach kids not to use the same password for everything as for if you register with a website and the site is dirty they will run that password against everything and anything along with e-mail address you provided etc, and it wouldnt matter how complex the password is at that point its out and all the sites registered with that password and e-mail address combination are then easy targets for criminals.

There are 2 ways to deal with this:

First method a friend shared with me in which he has 3 passwords. One that is for registering with sites in which if someone ever got a hold of the password, the worst they could do is register as him to PLACES online. The second password being less used, possibly for e-mail and other personal sites. The third being one used for banking etc.

Second Method which I use is most secure. Each and every registration and account online has a unique user name and complex password. This way if any of the passwords get leaked/sniffed/stolen somehow, then they only have access to that one site as me, and no others. I also refuse to link Facebook and other accounts to online registrations. I also keep a small notebook with user names, passwords, and aliases registered under since its no ones business who I am, my BIRTHDAY, my address, and all other questions asked for websites that never need this truthful information to work for you, and so I lie when legal to do so. For sites that I register with in which I want to see if they sold my information to others I will GIVE my real address and then misspell my last name etc, and then when junk mail shows up with that unique typo in my last name I can contact the site that i registered with and turn them red faced when I caught them selling my information to others.

The only problem with having it this secure is that I cant remember all of the aliases and passwords and so if the notebook that its all written down it disappeared I am in trouble. So since i have accidentally misplaced this notebook within the home and GONE crazy looking for it, I created a exact copy of it and placed that other notebook into another fixed location so that if the notebook that is used primarily is hidden under a stack of books as was the case when I lost it last time in my office, I still have the other. I then about once a month bring both notebooks together and update them to make them both the same.


Geek's Post count on password advice is up to 75.... I have used a program called Keepass to handle my passwords. It has an encrypted database to hold the passwords user names etc... It lets you copy the password in a hash and paste it into a site. This takes stuff like key loggers out of the mix. Also if you don't paste it in fast the program clears the clipboard. Over all it is a nice program for this type of stuff.

http://keepass.info/

 

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