I turned late-night terminal sessions into a hacker merch shop

It usually starts the same way.

Terminal open. Coffee going cold. One more command, one more log to check, one more password prompt staring back at me. If you work in — or are learning — cybersecurity, you know that screen. It is where the jokes live too: the password jokes nobody outside the field quite gets, the terminal humour you have to have typed at 1 a.m. to find funny.

That is where PasswordIsPassword came from.

I kept noticing that security culture has its own language — and almost nowhere to wear it. Most tech merch is generic. It says "coder" in a big font and calls it a day. It does not get the specific, slightly paranoid, very funny world of passwords, prompts, and late-night sessions.…