Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Omni-card doesn't have to be bad--- Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 89 23:10:06 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) Organization: Biar Games, Inc. Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 151, message 6 of 6 In article black@null.ll.mit.edu writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 148, message 7 of 11 [Jerry writes about remembering PIN's and somesuch] In my daily life, there are two types of PIN's I have to remember. The first is a bank money card 4 digit PIN, and the second are my telephone credit cards, where the PIN is on the card and I have to remember which phone # goes with which card. In the former case, I find the best PINs to use are 1) the first 4 digits of my old zipcode, or 2) the last four digits of a phone number I won't forget (not my phone number, of course; Mom's, for example). Such numbers are hard to forget; ask youself what your old college zipcode was! In the latter case, I just write a cryptic code, like "HN" for home number, "O1" for "Office Number #1", etc. Security for the latter cards can be more lax because they are likely to get lost when I am away from home, so there is little danger of abuse because the phone number is not on them. And in the case of my bank card, even if someone who know's it is my card tries to use it, the PIN is not anything they would be able to easily glean by researching me. -- Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc. ...!uunet!biar!trebor | trebor@biar.UUCP "The NY Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country. The National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country..."