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This site allows you to check the strength of your password using a database of weak and common passwords, and evaluates passwords using several criteria such as the number of characters, combinations of characters and uniqueness...

Teaching situation: enter a password (be careful, not a real one that you use! You never know if a nasty hacker was behind the site and stole your password...) and evaluate its robustness. After this experiment, take some time to find good practices and advices about safe passwords.

This is a website that assesses whether your email address has already found its way onto hacking lists.

Educational situation: enter an email address and (perhaps) scare yourself by finding out whether your address is on a hacking list. Precise definitions will help you to understand exactly what information has potentially been stolen, and how it was stolen. Don't forget to advise people to change their passwords if necessary!

"Guide to digital self-defence"  is an educational book on online and offline computer security. It is a collective work published by Tahin Party (6th edition 2023), published in Copyleft. You can find a version to read online, in pdf or e-reader, only in French. 

Curseurs is a periodical produced in Belgium to reflect on the digital society (written in french). The journal is produced entirely using open-source software and written by a team of motivated volunteers. Its content, published under a Creative Commons licence, can be re-used freely. It can be found free of charge at a number of locations in Brussels.

A great story that tackles the issue of digital freedoms, relations of power and of production, with a touch of gender and voluntarism. Works just as well with children as with adults.