oh dear - what a performance ........... !
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Flo
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Re: oh dear - what a performance ........... !
It's not just us old ones that forget. The youngest kid and family has gone back to a telephone on a string because they could never find the cordless hand sets or they were not charged when the phone rang. One daughter has never worked out how to log on to her on-line banking - it's too complicated. And we are talking middle aged here not seriously aged nearly 65 here
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Stonehead
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Re: oh dear - what a performance ........... !
The whole pin number, personal information question and answer, secret personal information, password thing is getting out of control.
To access my main bank account online I need to remember an authentication number, a password and a secret personal word, which has to be quite long. When I log in, I have to provide three random alphanumeric characters from that word. I also need to remember the PIN number for that account.
To access my secondary bank account online, I need to remember an online banking number, a password and an authentication code.
Then there are the two credit cards. We don't use them often, but I check them weekly for dodgy transactions and that means remembering a triple layer of passwords and codes for each.
The electricity company has a double layer of password and code to access our account. And there's BT. Then Paypal. Ebay. Amazon. Demon (our ISP) has several layers of passwords and codes: the broadband connection, the web connection, the email connection, and the account connection. Advertising the pigs means Scot-Ads and two magazine systems to remember account numbers and passwords. Five seed companies. Two agricultural suppliers. The builder's merchants and tool companies—times five! The three Land Rover parts suppliers. Two homebrew suppliers. Three smallholding suppliers. The insurance companies—times three. The printer. The fencing supplier. The cycle parts suppliers—times two.
Add to that list the forums like this. Times five. The Berkshire Pig Club. The British Pig Association. My blog. Yahoo.
And on and on and on.
To access my main bank account online I need to remember an authentication number, a password and a secret personal word, which has to be quite long. When I log in, I have to provide three random alphanumeric characters from that word. I also need to remember the PIN number for that account.
To access my secondary bank account online, I need to remember an online banking number, a password and an authentication code.
Then there are the two credit cards. We don't use them often, but I check them weekly for dodgy transactions and that means remembering a triple layer of passwords and codes for each.
The electricity company has a double layer of password and code to access our account. And there's BT. Then Paypal. Ebay. Amazon. Demon (our ISP) has several layers of passwords and codes: the broadband connection, the web connection, the email connection, and the account connection. Advertising the pigs means Scot-Ads and two magazine systems to remember account numbers and passwords. Five seed companies. Two agricultural suppliers. The builder's merchants and tool companies—times five! The three Land Rover parts suppliers. Two homebrew suppliers. Three smallholding suppliers. The insurance companies—times three. The printer. The fencing supplier. The cycle parts suppliers—times two.
Add to that list the forums like this. Times five. The Berkshire Pig Club. The British Pig Association. My blog. Yahoo.
And on and on and on.
