• Bob@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    “PIN number”

    vs.

    “FOSS software”

    Who’d win in a fight?

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      Oh man, I want to use a longer pin for my card so badly.

      From what I understand, the banks mostly support it, the problem is that not all point of sale does. Those terminals are frequently cobbled together with some pretty garbage software and if it’s hard-coded to four digits, whelp, good luck. I hope tap is working… Or NFC or something because otherwise, you’re SOL.

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        10 months ago

        Try it out. You may find out that your bank supports much longer pins, but only uses the first four digits anyway.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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          10 months ago

          Truncation is not a good look.

          For being an institution that is supposed to be trusted to hold all your money, their security has me scratching my head most of the time.