Do you wipe the input interface (e.g. phone screen, computer keyboard, payment terminals pin pad) after you type in the pin/password? (In order to hide any fingerprints/residue on the keys)
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Not because of passwords, but I wipe down my phone screen once a day, keyboard around once a week.
No don't wipe your keyboard, you'll ruin the seasoning.
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
No, but I sanitize my phone regularly.
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Lol, FBI could just bypass the lockscreen, this is more like defence against fraudsters and thieves (including identity thieves).
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I’ve never heard of that being used to steal a password—for one thing, it wouldn’t reveal the order in which you pressed the keys, so it would still leave n! possibilities (24 possibilities for a 4-digit pin, or 40,320 for an 8-letter password). And in any case, if someone were to examine the keys afterward, it’s more likely they could see which keys you wiped if you just wiped the ones you used (and if you wiped all of them, it would make it easier to steal the password of the next user).
The bigger thing to worry about is a hidden camera recording your key presses—and to counter that, I position my fingers over all the keys I’ll use and then move all my fingers with each press, so it’s harder to see which key was key was actually pressed.
Keylogging says hi
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Lol, FBI could just bypass the lockscreen, this is more like defence against fraudsters and thieves (including identity thieves).
I was just joking that OP (you) are trying to hide something, that I would hint the FBI to catch you.
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
The numbers on my lock screen randomize their locations, so even if you saw my finger movements and grease pattern, you couldn't guess the code.
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
When using a public PIN pad, I cover the whole thing with my other hand and make fake button presses in between the real ones.
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
If it's an outdoor pin pad the winter, such as a gas station, I'll touch all the keys so the thermal signature doesn't show which keys I pushed.
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
If it's an outdoor pin pad the winter, such as a gas station, I'll touch all the keys so the thermal signature doesn't show which keys I pushed.
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This, 1000% this.
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The numbers on my lock screen randomize their locations, so even if you saw my finger movements and grease pattern, you couldn't guess the code.
On your phone? Need an app for that?
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
Yes you are being weird. Why do you think anyone will bother getting physical access to your device?
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
I check for card skimmers, but the things I would type into have so many people touching them in a day. I wipe my keyboard down at work to cut down on communicable sickness.
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I was just joking that OP (you) are trying to hide something, that I would hint the FBI to catch you.
It has been my anecdotal experience that people who are overly concerned about their privacy usually have next to nothing to hide. But the people who let their freak flag fly right there on main, those fuckers are trying to pull a Kansas City Shuffle.
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On your phone? Need an app for that?
It's a feature in GrapheneOS
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I check for card skimmers, but the things I would type into have so many people touching them in a day. I wipe my keyboard down at work to cut down on communicable sickness.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I've seen a lot of new what look like thick foam pads stuck to the right side of cc pin pads to prevent a new skimmer device from being overlayed on top without it being obvious.
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No don't wipe your keyboard, you'll ruin the seasoning.
Don't worry. Im sure they wipe it down with a neutral flavored oil.
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I’ve never heard of that being used to steal a password—for one thing, it wouldn’t reveal the order in which you pressed the keys, so it would still leave n! possibilities (24 possibilities for a 4-digit pin, or 40,320 for an 8-letter password). And in any case, if someone were to examine the keys afterward, it’s more likely they could see which keys you wiped if you just wiped the ones you used (and if you wiped all of them, it would make it easier to steal the password of the next user).
The bigger thing to worry about is a hidden camera recording your key presses—and to counter that, I position my fingers over all the keys I’ll use and then move all my fingers with each press, so it’s harder to see which key was key was actually pressed.
The only case I would imagine someone trying to guess/brute force the PIN using fingerprints is some sort of state level actor trying to gain access, e.g. during a search warrant
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I mean like, after I type a password on a computer, I'd rub my fingers across the entire keyboard to make sure any fingerprints/oil-residues gets evenly distributed so its harder to know the password. Same with phone unlock codes, I just use my fingers to rub against the part of the screen where the virtual keyboard was displayed.
Am I being weird? I've had this habit since the first time I got my first digital electronics.
Maybe a question for therapy.
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Maybe a question for therapy.
Therapy would say "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" while writing the notes on their WINDOWS Computer with Copilot Enabled. Btw my country is fascist, the more notes that get on their system is more tools to suppress dissent especially for a non-white person like me living in a white-majority country.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry
