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That's must be annoying to say the least. In India drivers require an OTP to start a ride. The OTP is the same for a user across rides, so I have mine memorise
by ctxc 1y ago
That's must be annoying to say the least. In India drivers require an OTP to start a ride.
The OTP is the same for a user across rides, so I have mine memorised which is nifty. No fiddling with the phone during boarding.
On security: exploiting this would require the driver to stay in my vicinity the next time I book a ride, and also get the ride assigned to them.
In a high population density area, it's rare - I've never had the same driver twice.
- cwalv 1y agoAn OTP that's reused?
- ctxc 1y agoI mean it _technically_ isn't an OTP, but you know what I mean - just a code only the user knows that they need to share with the rider. The threat model is sufficiently low to justify the much better UX of not having to look the code up everytime.
- Propelloni 1y agoThe acronym you are looking for is "PIN", a Personal Identification Number.
- csomar 1y agoIt solves the problem for 99.99% of the time. Drivers are not going to memorize your OTP; and it is unlikely that an OTP list will be leaked/used anytime soon.
- broken-kebab 1y agoMaybe, but there's OT in OTP. So if it's not changing then it's not OTP, just P.
- travisjungroth 1y agoIt changes every time. You can also just have it at night, which I have. Prevents drunk wrong riders.
- wildzzz 1y agoFor that driver, it's effectively an OTP although probably not very pseudorandom.
- mrloop 1y agoAn MTP
- labster 1y agoOmni-time password
- dheerajvs 1y agoUber in India gives me a different OTP for each ride. A different ride-hailing app I use occasionally uses a PIN tied to a user. OTPs are a simple solution to fraudulent rides that it's surprising it's not implemented universally, given all the complaints in this thread.