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Or be (not, it would seem) overly paranoid like me, my PIN patterns and entering do not involve moving my fingers horizontally, I put my hand down on the pad wi
by hga 11y ago
Or be (not, it would seem) overly paranoid like me, my PIN patterns and entering do not involve moving my fingers horizontally, I put my hand down on the pad with my fingers on set keys, cover it with my wallet, and type it in. I also always double one key to make it that much harder to get by observation, a trick I learned from a sysadmin with major access to my school's systems back when we all had to use public terminals a lot.
- ricardobeat 11y agoBy keeping your fingers longer on the keys you're actually making it easier for the person after you to just take an IR shot of the keyboard and reduce their search space to 16 combinations or less.
- hga 11y agoThis is designed to foil garden variety skimmers now and in the foreseeable future, not someone "after" me. Who's going to go to that much trouble when there are I presume many many more people entering their PINS in ways that are easily skimmed?
- john_reel 11y agoWhat does it mean to “double one key”?
- hga 11y agoHave the PIN or password repeat one key in the sequence. Like "mwfabrrpg", if you type quickly an observer won't notice that the 'r' was typed twice in quick sequence.