*Hackers*

I am always changing passwords for my various electronics devices. Sometimes I don't know whether I should be angry or amazed. The thing is there are many hackers at home in the form of my neices and nephews. They have been quite successful at times that I am just simply amazed, amused and exasperated.

Is not that I do not want to let them use my stuffs, but they are not supposed to use them until they finish their work. Their mothers, my sisters, say they should not be using without supervision which I agree. We are not around during the daytime to supervise them.

I guess is just a matter of tries at times. Once they managed to hack into the ipad and I changed the password. The next time, my ipad content was deleted due to a default setting where the content will be erased when the number of tries for trying the password exceeded 10 or 100 times. Did not even know there is such a default seeting. I had to download all my content again and change the setting to never allow content to be erased.

Then for the laptop and computer, I set up children accounts wth parental control setting to only allow them usage at certain time slots. But my clever eldest nephew somehow managed to change the settings a number of times when my sister was logged in her administrator account and moved away from the computer for a short while.

Recently the parental control does not work at all as he manages to do something to the computer that requires him not being able to log in any of the accounts I set and use it. Wow I am also not sure how he does it. He told me he just banged on the keyboards and it worked. I tried but still it required passwords. Still scratching my head over how he did it.

Anyway I have to say my nieces and nephews are getting better at this *hacking* thing. Though of course the eldest nephew is really good at it. In fact, I feel he is talented somehow with IT stuff. Maybe it can be an area he wants to pursue.