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22 April 2008 Be the first to comment

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To hear that Steve Willey is shocked that people could have so many credit cards that they have forgotten one or more PINs is itself shocking. I receive more invitations to apply for credit cards than I receive junk email offering something I shall call horn-therapy - which is a lot. Anyone in the same boat who is more predisposed than I to accept such offers would certainly have more cards than PINs, and probably more PINs than could possibly be remembered. I live in hope that Dean Procter's vision of a password-less (but safe) environment comes about very, very soon. Personally, I have recently reduced the number of unique passwords to the absolute minimum I need to operate my (two) cards and the various online resources I use... and still it's more than 20. I am surprised that the number of forgotten PINS is as low as this article suggests!

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23 April 2008

I try and be a security freak about my PINS and passwords by having them all different and as a result spend half my time waiting for a new one in the email, after forgeting them. I was recently relieved of my wallet and at present I have an imposter running around trying to use my ID. The effort required to change everything was really a tedious waste of time.

I could have used my mobile for every document in my wallet, and of course I didn't lose the mobile. I would have only needed to make one contact if that was the case. It was useful to ring up and cancel everything though, at a hefty price by the time I'd waited in a plethora of voice queues.

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