By J. Irving

In one of those tiring lectures, I told my office students that the default passwords to their computers were set initially for them to key-in the word “password”. Once they are inside, they can change it to a better password that is hard to crack.

There was an elderly lady employee who asked me for an advice what password she could use that there’s no way for her to forget it?

Weary of repeating on how to create strong passwords; but really, I sympathized with her, she is about to retire and she has to undergo the class, in order not to be the weakest link; and those required passwords were really hard to remember. So, I told her, whispering, to change her password to: “incorrect” and apply leetcoding by replacing the letter “i” with number “1” and capitalize the next letter in order to follow the rule of at least eight characters with one numeral and one capital letter. Your password will be this: 1Ncorrect

I further explained that If she ever typed a wrong password, the computer would always remind her the correct password by popping up a message on the screen, “The password is incorrect” … hehe that was our secret!