Digital Wall Safe

Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 8:56 am

One of the most common ways of security protecting something is to give it a digital PIN or combination. Think about it – your card for the bank ATM has a PIN. Your cell phone, in all likelihood, asks for a PIN every time you switch it back on. Very often, channels on the TV that kids should not be watching are locked out with a PIN. Along with computer passwords, the Personal Identification Number is one thing that is always protected with almost insane secrecy.

If you use a PIN to protect anything in your possession, there are some basic rules to which you will absolutely need to stick. For example, you should never use the digits from your date of birth. If you were born, for example, on Christmas Day, using 2512 as your PIN is exactly what thieves will expect from you. As much as you may think it is a clever double bluff, remember that frequently the outcome of a double bluff is that the “bluffs” cancel one another out, leaving simply a very obvious answer.

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Change your PIN regularly. Have some way of remembering it without writing it down, but crucially it should be something only you will be able to identify. A favored word rendered in digits corresponding to a telephone keypad is one possibility. The shirt numbers of two preferred sports players combined may also work for a four-digit PIN. Keeping the PIN safely in your mind and never writing it down lessens the chance of anyone happening upon it. Trying a clever way of noting it down in code is also a bad idea. There may be a tiny chance at best of anyone working it out, but if it lives inside your head and only there, there is NO chance.

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