or why it is not a good idea to use your birthday as your pin

  • takeheart@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Anecdotal but I’ve heard that when banks auto generate PINs for debit cards they filter out some suspicious ones like 0000 or 1234 because it only leads to customers complaining and wanting to change them (more work for the bank). Nowadays the customer can usually change them themselves, so it might be less true.

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      5 months ago

      When I got my credit card (and credit account) set up, they had me set a pin then and there. But that might be because I had to create the account in person?