You're the cyber security Expert

In this lesson, pupils are challenged by a cyber security expert, to develop their knowledge of cyber-crime. As a class, pupils think about how a criminal might try and discover the secret number on a physical combination padlock and write an algorithm for this.

Pupils subsequently apply this to a digital context, by exploring a program which illustrates how cyber criminals might use computers to try and discover secret numbers, such as pins, or even passwords. In doing so, pupils learn about the use of variables and conditional loops in code, and how to create stronger, more secure pins and passwords.

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