How to keep your passwords secret?

[gto69judge]

First off, he needs to change all of his passwords. His mom obviously has gotten hold or or guessed his current one(s).

For a new password, use something that is alpha-numeric (contains letters and numbers) and case sensitive. The longer the password, the generally more secure it will be.

Do not chose anything about himself that his mom will know- birthday, middle name, anything he is known to like. A sample of a good, secure password might be 15yEllow6.

Never write the password down or save it to any kind of computer file. Commit it to memory and don't share if he doesn't have to.

As a final though, if your friend is using a shared computer it is possible his mom may have a parental key logger installed. These programs record everything that is typed on the computer. In which case the most secure password in the world won't help any.