Here are some tips to help you break software with modest effort and no special tools:

1. Change your last name to True or, for nihilists, Null
2. Be Turkish
3. Move to Norway
4. Be a horse person
5. Be born before 1970
6. Type anything that isn’t a printable ASCII character
7. Use the wrong printable ASCII character
8. Practice good password hygiene

Let us know your favorite ways to break software!