Use two fingers to put in your PIN
One actually presses, the other one doesn’t
You could generate an absurd amount of possible PINs that could work on your card, giving any PIN peepers a seriously hard time, should they somehow have the intent to get ahold of your card and PIN through spying and pickpocketing
Safes, doors, etc. same principle
Even better tip: commit your false finger movements to muscle memory so not even a recurring stalker can bypass it
This will be totally overboard, and totally unnecessary, most of the time. But like any kind of security, it’s good to have it even if you hopefully never need it
Sometimes I’ll do like jazz hand fingers on the keypad so it looks like I’m just jamming a bunch of random numbers.
Or I’ll mimic something like this but without actually pressing the buttons
The ol’ two-finger entry method. It’s been around longer than PINs.
I prefer calling it “two in the PIN”.
Two fingers one pin
If somebody steals your card, wouldn’t they run the transaction as credit? They wouldn’t need your PIN.
this feels like a very american thing to me, everyone here has debit cards where you can at most get a couple hundred dollars per month from making purchases where you simply tap the card to pay, before it starts requiring you to enter the PIN
I use my penis as a stylus for optimal security–no way the casual viewer can actually see it in person.
I usually speak very loudly while entering my PIN, “1 2 3 4”
My workmate used to do this 30 years ago.
I started copying him - same funny fake password - when I moved on. Then I left that job after 8 years. I came back to that crew 10 years after that, to where most of them had moved en masse after a calamity, and my casual workmate from back then was doing it a decade later – same funny fake password. I laughed so hard.
I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!
Samsonite!
duh… it’s right there on the briefcase ya goof!
0, 0, 0… 0!
Something that is potentially helpful for stuff like this:
Every nuneric keypad ive eever seen is laid out in the same way and therr is usually a little bump over 5 which is the middle number.
If you can orient yourself by touch with the bump then the numbers will always be in thr same place and you can use this trick and cover the pad with your hand to be extra discrete.
Its really not hard. Like. Blind people can function in the world.
I learned to use the numpad by touch in high school typing class.
Still probably the most useful class I took in high school
We had very different experiences in typing classes. My teacher would regularly show up drunk (it was my first class of the day, so he was likely drinking until early morning hours), and eventually we just got all our instruction from his student teacher.
Most card readers I’ve used in recent years have touch screens.
This is pretty much the norm now.
