While I am on a roll, another whinge! The new technology is obsessed with numbers. Codes and pin numbers are necessary to carry out even the simplest of activities. I am constantly reminded that my pin number/password is too simple and easily reproduced and the advice is to change it for one that includes both upper and lower case letters, numbers and signs. The net result would be something non-memorable as far as I am concerned. So I would have to write it down somewhere handy and, when needed, remember where I had written it! Which would seem to destroy the whole purpose of having one!
It’s getting so we need passwords and pins to do anything. To get into a bank account, use one’s own computer, pay a bill by card, get cash out of machine, collect keys from a lockbox, and so on. The great temptation is to use one’s birthday numbers all the time in the different pins. Ah, but a potential thief would expect an old codger to do that, so that’s out. And how about one’s car rego? Also too obvious. Address and postcode? Too easy. The trouble is I am looking to create a password/pin composed of number/letters I can easily remember, but they are inevitably judged to be ‘low security’. OK, how about 13A9bec17#$02? But I’ll never remember that. so it will have to be tattooed on my arm. But what happens if I am unconscious and am picked up by an unscrupulous paramedic? I think my new pin is going to be something like Paranoia2021.
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