E-Safety/Safe Passwords

Lesson Objectives

Understand what makes a strong password
Understand why you need to have separate passwords for every website/service you use.
Know how to create a password safe using Word

Starter

Here is some information about Ali:

Ali was born on 1st Jan 2001
Favourite football team is United FC
Pet dog is called Scamp
Favourite food is pasta
Mobile number is 01777 123456

Ali has created a password for a FaceBook account, relating to something above.

Write down a list of passwords Ali might have used
Should Ali be on FaceBook?
Why should Ali NOT use any of the above as a password?

Answers

There are many possible passwords that relate to your name/location/DOB/hobbies

No – Too young!

Passwords should not relate to information that is publicly available on your profile page, which is often visible to other people.

Demonstration

A good password is hard to crack (guess/hack) but easy to remember!

One easy technique is to come up with an easy to remember phrase and then reduce it to intials and numbers:

Take the phrase:

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden

Now substitute the and for & or + and substitute the to for a number 2

Wisdom is not like money 2 be tied up & hidden

Now take the first letter only

winlm2btu&h

Now add some capitals - the first letter at least can be a capital

Winlm2btu&h

Task 1: Strong password tips

Password Worksheet

IMPORTANT :: Do not use any passwords that you are already using for your answers 'For each of the following techniques, create 2 different passowrds'

Eg Use Letters and Numbers: l3m0nad3 / lemonade2934

Use letters and numbers
Use a minimum of 8 characters
Don’t use personal information
Use characters like brackets
Use a mixture of capitals and lower case letters
Use a sentence / song lyric instead of a word
Only use the first letters of that sentence
Use different languages

Using examples from above think of suitable passwords to use for the following: (again, not ones that you currently use)

A Social Network account
A games website
An email account

Create a super password using as many of the above techniques as you can

Task 2: Creating a password safe

Questions for student discussion:

Why is it good to have a different password for each account you have?

Creating a password safe can help to remember multiple passwords.