ACCESS DENIED. 3 ATTEMPTS REMAINING.

On a whim, he typed the filename of the video without the extension. Q_MEETING

Below that, a final line:

He pictured a programmer, tired and angry, building a digital cage. What would that person use as a key? Not a word from a dictionary. Not a birthdate. Something personal. Something they'd never forget, but no one else would guess.

He thought about the video file. Q_MEETING. The meeting that probably got this server buried in the first place.