Picking a password

SIR – When I was in charge of looking after a school’s computers, I was asked by pupils what to use as a password (“We’re sacrificing convenience for ridiculous web password demands”, City, July 5).

Their choice of simple words was alarming, as they could easily be guessed. I told them to think of a simple phrase that only applied to them. For example: My mother hates tomato juice in the morning. This would become Mmhtjitm.

Robert Ward

Loughborough, Leicestershire