How to Choose a Strong Password
Videos
The following videos will help you choose, change and keep up your Lake Stevens passwords.
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- Choose Password
- Change a Password
- For Teachers
The following videos will help you choose, change and keep up your Lake Stevens passwords.
Use the links below to learn more about how to create and maintain strong passwords in school and in life.
Online Tool
Many people find phrases in their mother tongue, even if complete nonsense, easier to remember and type than passwords consisting of arbitrary letters and numbers. Of course, since only a minority of sequences of letters are words in a given language, the information density or entropy of such keys is lower, and consequently a phrase must be substantially longer than a meaningless key to be equally difficult to guess.
Use this PASSPHRASE GENERATOR to help you find a strong combination of words for your password.
Digital Citizenship Curriculum
CommonSense Media Digital Citizenship curriculum is the recommended curriculum in the Lake Stevens School District. Click any of the links below to find excellent resources for the classroom or home to help you understand why strong passwords are necessary.
How secure is it?
If you want a second opinion, use the Strong Password Checker by Microsoft. It is a safe site that allows you type in your password and check the strength. Everything is kept local on your computer so no one can capture your password.
