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Eh, therapists are not cybersecurity experts. They have no way of knowing if this is reasonable or not. Just strategies for if it is emotional.
When people say shit like this, I wonder if they've ever been.
If you are a regular-ass person using their normal phone/computer, and have no reason to suspect someone is trying to hack you, then this is some extremely paranoid behavior.
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I don’t wipe the keypad off but I do pull on the card slot just in case there’s a card reader, especially in bigger or new cities.
I'm a big city boi so that tracks.
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IT guy here.
Nope, my phone uses facial recognition to unlock, and my computer passwords are wither random letters and numbers or a full passphrase, both of which use multiples of the same letter and different capitalizations.
Example:
Random string, similar to passwords I have used in the past:
"r82ZwQqDW"
Looking at a keyboard where you could see all characters used it would look like this:
dqrwz28 + shift
Figuring out the password above from these letter by logic is basically impossible, so they have to brute force it, only they don't know the length of the password, which uses more time.
Passphrases are even better, using something like:
CreepySmilingHorseSnortsLead2016!
Just look at all of the reused letters!
No way someone would guess that the characters acedghilmnoprsty0126 + shift would spell the password above.
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My screen has a matte foil on it.
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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.
GOS! I was going to say the same thing
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Is everyone here paranoid?
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Is everyone here paranoid?
glances at c/privacy
Yes
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Money?
There's less of a risk with something hard to separate a person from like a phone, but a payment terminal is a massive target.
You are ignoring the other layers of your security.
They have to have the card you are using and you can cancel any suspicious charges you see.
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You are ignoring the other layers of your security.
They have to have the card you are using and you can cancel any suspicious charges you see.
Sure, but fraud still happens. You asked why anyone would bother.
