We’ve all been there. You’re trying to connect to your VPN, confident that you’ve stored the credentials somewhere safe. Then the prompt appears: ywzr w pswrd Wait, what?
I opened a text file and typed “user password” on one line. Then I shifted each letter one key to the left on a QWERTY keyboard (y←u, w←e, z←r, etc.). Sure enough, “user password” encoded becomes “ywzr pswrd”. ywzr w pswrd Vpn namhdwd -raygan-
P.S. If your VPN ever asks for “ywzr w pswrd” again, just type normally. It’s listening. We’ve all been there