I'm not thick. I know it doesn't sound like much of a boast, but I'm pretty competent at this whole adulting lark. But it appeared that I had forgotten a 4 digit number I'd set up less than a minute ago! The security guard smiled wearily at me, "It happens to everyone!" She said. Which, [...]

A little rant for this Saturday about a stupid usability problem which will never get fixed.

  • sokkies@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    My pin is also a pattern, recently I paid at a restaurant, and they had a card unit with a touch screen, I suppose for fingerprint reasons; the numbers on the pad were randomised… took me quite a while to remember what my pin number was in tge end

      • duncesplayed@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Don’t come to Korea. Every banking transaction requires you to punch in your PIN at least twice with a randomized numpad. Well actually it’s a 4x3 numpad with 2 spaces randomly inserted into it.

        • edent@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          What?! That boggles my mind - and would probably break my brain.

    • jrandomhacker@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Something I’ve always found funny is the fact that there’s a big chunk of people who have only ever encountered a scramble-pad for typing their bank PIN in Runescape

  • brie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Typing in my computer password is pretty much just muscle memory at this point than consciously remembering the password (yes, I should probably be rotating the password). Part of me thinks that some usecases of passwords or pins could be replaced with “pass-gestures,” like pattern unlock on phones.

    • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      For my local computer password, it will likely be the same pattern until I die. For Internet services I just use a password manager. Local accounts don’t seem like a major attack vector as they once were. Maybe I’m wrong about that though.