An exploratory study of children's online password behaviours

Sumbal Maqsood, Robert Biddle, Sana Maqsood, Sonia Chiasson · 2018

With increasing use of technology and the Internet among children, we explore how they create passwords to protect their personal information. We conducted a study with children 11 to 13 years to understand their password practices. The results of the study indicated that these children create simple passwords consisting of their personal information, believe that these passwords are hard for a stranger to guess and do not have good understanding of creating strong passwords.

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