• ArtificialLink@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Its randomized so someone cant copy your finger movement and figure out your pin. Crazy to see decent security on this

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    1 year ago

    Haha. I understand the security reasoning, but it always breaks my brain. I just set up fingerprint instead so I don’t have to suffer anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Wait people that think a scrambled number pad is appropriate allow you to use your fingerprint?
      A hacker demonstrated at a CCC congress how he got the fingerprint of the German defense minister with a digital camera.

      Fingerprints are pretty much public information lol

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    I have to use a “scrambler pad” like this at work for entering credit card numbers. Very frustrating to use

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      1 year ago

      They wanted to apply this to atms, but they realized most of the people are remembering the path more than the numbers themselves. At end it was abandoned.

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    La Banque Postale has an even crazier version. It’s a 5x5 grid with randomized positions and some buttons are actually empty since there are only 10 digits and 25 buttons. So it’s even harder to know where each number is.

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    1 year ago

    As a spawn of Satan, I would like to propose this…

    Scrambler for the Pattern Lock… It rotates, sometimes it’s upsidedown, reverse, angled at the left, angled at the right… 😈

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    If they weren’t that ridiculous about security, a rowdy teen might score some brew. Or worse, an unauthorized person might trick an innocent business into making them pay payroll taxes. Imagine what a dystopian world it would be if fake IDs existed.

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    I’m likely dyslexic. I find it very hard to read numbers especially (I just scramble numbers up in my head), so typing anything on that where numbers aren’t in their normal place would be really hard for me.