On 11 Jul 2017 at 9:44, Binarus wrote: > On 10.07.2017 17:42, Guan Xin wrote: > > This is probably a general question -- > > > > I have never seen a German bank that allows changing the PIN of a card. > > I am not sure if this is an intentional limitation of the cards (to > prevent users from choosing idiotic pins like 1234 or their birthday).
[..] At least Sparkasse and HypoVereinsbank and IIRC also Postbank allow changing at the ATM terminal. And a birthday isn't as idiotic as 1234 or 1111, as long you assume a standard pickpocket doesn't know you personal data (OK, your ID-card within the same wallet... maybe no good idea. Then not your own birthday but from a person or your cat you can remember, or better your wedding day, which normally would be forgotten always ;-) > Now, this is a completely different question which does not have to do > anything with the pin's length. The answer to this question completely > depends on your environment and your intentions. I will explain this by > two examples with contrary conclusions: > > Example 1: > [...] > > Example 2: [..] Example 3 MY use case would be: I have, let's say two bank accounts at Sparkasse, one at Postbank, one at HypoVereinsbank (possible reason: two bussines accounts and one private account and one from a inherited account) and I can remember ONE good "random-like" 4-digit-PIN, but would mangle definitely four different PINs (been there, done that...). Then I chose one and the same "good" PIN for all four cards which I don't need to write down anywhere and everything is OK. Regards Matthias -- OpenPGP: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de/gnupgkey/mansfeld.asc Fingerprint: 6563 057D E6B8 9105 1CE4 18D0 4056 1F54 8B59 40EF _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
