Which has happened.

Or someone standing behind you in a dense queue watches what you enter.

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Damon

If the terminally is correctly designed and uncompromised. In several high-profile retail cases neither of those has been true.

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Damon

Not only is remembering endless new passwords and PINs very hard, but I don't want to entrust the PIN for a bank card with a direct call on my current account (for example) to retailers who are notoriously cheap when it comes to security measures.

The only thing I want to use a PIN on a bank card for is an a bank ATM to withdraw cash or as part of 2-factor authentication for on-line transactions.

Rgds

Damon

My card issuer decided to push me a personal NFC card, without asking.

They would not disable it (claimed they could not) or issue me a card without it one activated (again, claimed that they could not).

So it sits unused in my desk drawer as I told them it would, and another less high-handed card issuer gets my transactions.

(They did the same with my business VISA, but when I phoned to complain and asked them to disable NFC they said "yes" which means they were probably lying either then, or when they told me they could not disable it on my personal card.)

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Damon

+1

Oh dear, letting facts and shades-of-grey realities get in the way of a corporations-iz-evills story!

You must be new round here... %-P

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Damon

The sour cynical answer is always the right one, of course. Except when it isn't.

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Damon

'So true, 'sadly!

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Damon

Turns out it's unlucky to be superstitious!

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Damon

I don't think that "concurrent" means what you think it does.

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Damon

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...

Glad that's not just me.

I wish they'd trash all calls for much more of the route; what do you think we'd have to club together for that service?

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Damon

Things have changed for the better for Windows I am quite sure, but back in the days when I was a UNIX sysadmin for a living you needed 10x as many Windows admins as UNIX admins for the same number of machines / user seats, so a simple salary ratio would be misleading!

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Damon

I've seen at least one attack per minute since I took my ISP on-line on the NSF-managed Internet ~1993 (in those days Chile and .vz were the main source IIRC) whenever I've looked. And I still get upwards of ~10,000 SPAM attempts on my mail accounts per day, at least when I could last be bothered to waste the CPU cycles and Flash write cycles to count them. Attacks across the Net are not new. I was the only UK ISP even attempting to protect my own systems with an firewall (which I wrote and we nominally made available http://www.exnet.com/ExFilter/ though I don't think we sold any) for quite some time...

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Damon

No, not "exponentially". A fixed constant factor higher in fact.

Let's not use up the art terms until we mean them. Adding a port-knocking *sequence* before access could get you into exponential territory.

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Damon