We should protect our kids from TV shows with stupid security
I was driving the ol’ trusty minivan yesterday with the family. We were in the middle of a 7 hour drive, coming back from seeing my parents over Memorial Day, and the kids were watching a DVD of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward series. One particular episode starred a character that was some kind of digital entity that acted like a virus and was trying to get to a main frame computer.
The Cody character (great-grandson of the old Casey Jones character – for you old TMNT fans) was telling the entity that the main frame was protected by “a gazillion firewalls”, so there was basically no way she could break in. She then said that she wouldn’t have to break in if Cody would just give her the password.
OK, I know this is a kid’s show, but come on! A gazillion firewalls (whatever that means) can be bypassed by a single password? This should be rated TV-M for graphically stupid security. I know I will teach my kids different as they get older, but I am going to have to fight through all this mush inserted by shows like this.
Of course, the violence and “almost-cursing” (the Turtles regularly say “OH SHELL!!” and “WHAT THE SHELL!!”) are totally fine. 
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