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by wishfish 1479 days ago
I was worried this would happen to me. I made an entry in my notes app. "Doctor Harry Bottomsmith 801-421-8623 9 am Friday" where 4218 was my PIN.

That's saved me a few times when I blanked out. This note, in theory, will look completely innocuous in case anyone gets access to my notes.

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I've had a few of these. Until years later when I stumbled upon them again and totally forgot how they were meant to be decoded.
You just validated every adventure game player typing in whatever numbers they can find to try and guess passwords.
This is more generally known as steganography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography