At the young age of 14 years old, Nina Devani of London was a witness to one of the most modern crimes of our current times. This crime was her father’s Facebook profile being hacked. The hacking had caused her father much visible stress at the time. So much so, that Nina felt a calling to fix the problem herself. She wanted to rid the world of easily forgotten passwords and hackers who take advantage of them, for good. Especially since her father wasn’t the best at remembering passwords at the time of the hacking.
So, she set to work, trying to obtain 10,000 in whatever way she could. Her dream was to create an app that would prompt you to remember your forgotten password in a way that didn’t give it away too easily for hackers to get their hands on. Of course, Nina didn’t want it to only be a dream but a reality.
At first it seemed like an impossible feat for such a young girl. Creating a password management software meant to protect against the dark corners of the internet. But she didn’t give up, Nina created a prototype called “Prompt Me Nina” that helped users remember not only their passwords but also their usernames in a way that didn’t give too much information. Soon Nina was able to catch the interest of private investors and achieved her goal of 10,000. What is impressive, is that Nina did all this while studying for school and getting very high grades! her company now goes by a new name: “DevaniSoft Ltd.” And has continued to protect many password forgetters around the world. She has saved many accounts and will probably continue to do so for years to come.
Nani continues her business to this day and has many other projects in the works as we speak!
This is a great example of someone personally feeling pain and using that as fuel to solve the problem. It is also very impressive that she was able to accomplish all of this while studying for school and maintaining high grades.
Nina is very impressive because she took on a very large and serious project at such a young age. Many people feel the pain of account hacking, and it definitely is worrisome especially with how much information can be taken from social media accounts. The idea of creating a way to remember passwords and usernames without giving too much information is very interesting because the security questions always seem easy to hack. Overall, Nina was very innovative and has a bright future ahead of her.