Hello, everybody. Another special episode of Tom's tech tips. I'm joined by Samantha. Samantha is my daughter, and Samantha happens to be a child cybersecurity expert because she's been surrounded by me and her whole entire life. What are we gonna talk about today, Sam? Sam doesn't remember. We're gonna talk about good password hygiene and username hygiene. So you use the internet. You have been using the internet your whole entire life. So you're familiar with passwords. Everything Sam's gonna say, it applies to professional use, but for children, what are some tips about passwords that you wanna give to folks? Of course, one of the main things with password is you don't wanna use very simple things, like one, two, three, four, five. Obviously, you're heard of using the simplest passwords that practically anyone can guess. You wanna make it something more complex, but easy to remember that something sort of relates to you in a way. At the same time that no one would try and guess it, or it's harder to figure out. So for child for children, Who are the only people you can share your passwords with? Your parents or guardians are the only people you should be sharing passwords with. Not even your siblings, because some most sometimes younger or older siblings, they they don't always they can accidentally any leak information, and you don't want anything bad going around with the information? Mhmm. Good. Very good. So you don't share passwords with anybody but a parent guardian Do you it's also a really good idea. We don't write them down. We don't put them in emails. So where do we store them? You can store them in if you save your password or you could try and remember it. Like, after a couple of times, I started to remember my password, and I just knew it immediately. So I didn't really need to have it, oh, save the password, but some people do And And that's still fine. So when we talk about saving our password, we're referring to in device password saving. In your Apple, IOS device, whether it be a phone or iPad or in your Android device using the there, the actual OS password volt or if you're in a web browser like Google Chrome or your Chromebook, saving it in that vault, which is encrypted, not in a document, not somewhere else. What other tips do you have about passwords for folks? You shouldn't tell, like, your friends or anyone else, like I said before, because it's just common if you know what I mean, like, it getting leaked and people spreading it and spreading it. And just by the time you've done, more and more people will know about it, and most site glean no one will forget. How about using the same password multiple times? Is that a good idea? No. That's not good either because if someone figure out one of your words, let's say, to one of your gaming accounts or something like that. And you have to say that you try, oh, let's try it for that. Google account. So let's say that's enlisted in there. And it's the same password. That means they can get even more information by looking into another one of your accounts. And last but certainly not least with passwords is set up two factor authentication for your children. So if you're using even games like Roblox, they have multi factor authentication. And there's generally two types of multi factor authentication. One is SMS or text based, and the other is app based. Both are good. Appbase is better. Because that means you have to actually physically have a device with an application on it. SMS based is text message based. Now that could be challenging sometimes for your kids if you're not with them, but your kids really shouldn't be logging into something without your knowledge anyway. So this is also safeguards your children from inadvertently logging into a device that they shouldn't be because in order to get into somebody at this Gmail, a Roblox account, she has to get that six digit code for me. There is no workaround. There is no way around it. And while it's challenging sometimes, is it a problem, Sam, for you to log into things? No. At the first time was getting a little annoyed by it, then I got used to it because it's just like even asking or just waiting a couple of seconds to get the password back for just letting it be for a couple seconds and being patient. After you learn to be patient, it becomes way easier now. I'm totally fine it, Visa helps protect others and me. Great. Well, thank you, Sam, for joining us. We'll see you in the next episode of Tom's special tech to with Sam.
