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Describe why it is important to secure your wireless router at home. Search the Internet to find the rules to create a reasonably secure password. Create an imaginary password for your home router. - Computer Science (Python)

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Describe why it is important to secure your wireless router at home. Search the Internet to find the rules to create a reasonably secure password. Create an imaginary password for your home router. Will you share your password for the home router with the following people? Justify your answer.

  1. Parents
  2. Friends
  3. Neighbours
  4. Home Tutors
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It is important to secure your wireless router at home so that an unknown person cannot miss use internet.

  • A strong password consists of at least a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, a number, and some special characters and must be of tale 8 characters in length.
  • You can share your passwords with anyone whom you can trust. If you trust your friends, neighbors, and home tutors then you can share with them but make sure they don't forward it to someone.
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Chapter 11: Societal Impact - Exercise [Page 249]

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Chapter 11 Societal Impact
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