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0 pointsfalcolas4y ago0 comments

A business card stored in a wallet or purse is pretty good too. After all, we're already pretty used to protecting our credit cards, identity cards, and cash.

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Brian_K_White4y ago

It's pretty bad to put both a debit card and it's password together.

The only reason it's even tolerable risk to walk around out in the wide random world with a debit or credit card on your person all day every day, is because somewhere else you have the means to disable it and declare it lost.

This is like storing the keys to your car conveniently right on your car.

sj4nz4y ago

If anything it should be the "red herring" password that locks the account if retried too many times.

falcolasOP4y ago

That's an important corner case I overlooked. I still think it's easily solved using the same principles: there are places in our houses where we regularly store sensitive items in already as well, such as a filing cabinet, or key safe, or next to that emergency $100 in a book.

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