ItsTheMitchell

The Internet is the wild west. It can be a bit… uncivilized. How do we teach our students, as well as our own children… and ourselves for that matter, to bring a touch of civilization to the internet? How do teach and learn how to protect ourselves from those internet ruffians? Google to the rescue! Go check out beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com. (That’s “be internet awesome (dot) with google (dot) com” without the spaces.) Be Internet Awesome covers topics like being kind, but not oversharing, securing your accounts, and finding truth on the internet. It’s even got games to teach the concepts. Yes, it seems like it’s aimed at students younger than High School, but if they haven’t learned it by now, they could use the exposure. Consider this for your own children as well.

tl;dr 1. Don't use a garbage password.  2. Use a strong password.  3. Use different passwords for each account. 4. Consider a password manager.  5. NEVER give your password to ANYONE!  6. Check out howsecureismypassword.net .  7. Check out haveibeenpwned.com Hello Internet. I hope you are having a beautiful day. I'd like to talk to you about your passwords for a minute. I don't mean to be ugly about it, but I need to put this in no uncertain terms. Some of you have awful passwords. Terrible. Awful. Get your act together. First, we're going to talk about what makes a terrible password. Splashdata, an internet security company, maintains a list of the most common passwords each year. Let's take a look at some of the perennial greatest hits. #1. 123456 #2. password #3. 123456789 #4. 12345678 Let's jump around a bit... #8. sunshine #9. qwerty #10. iloveyou #12. admin #18. monkey #20. !@#$%^&* - This one lo...