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February 14, 2008

Is security in the genes?

Dna Interesting thing happened tonight. My oldest son Landon, 8 years old, was trying to log in to WebKinz world (both of my boys are into these webkinz things, but that is another story).  There was a problem with the page loading so he called me over to help him get on the site.  I was able to get the log in page and asked him for his user name, which he gave me. I than asked him for his password and he said, "sorry Dad I can't give you that, I don't want you hacking into my webkinz account".  He would not even type in his password until I moved away from the keyboard. Can you believe this!  I asked him where he learned this.  He said a lot of kids in school give out their passwords and other kids hack into their accounts, but he is too smart for that and changes his password every 2 weeks anyway, just to be safe.  I was duly impressed, but questioned why he would not even trust his dad.  He told me that he trusts no one with his password, not even his dad.  Though slightly miffed that he didn't trust his dad, I was very impressed and proud of his security awareness.

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