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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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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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.
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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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.
My screen has a matte foil on it.
Hard enough to see any fingerprint. -
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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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.
Is everyone here paranoid?
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Is everyone here paranoid?
glances at c/privacy
Yes
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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.
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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.
