Give up your PIN-code to some criminal holding you at gun-point?

Well, go to jail already! In the Netherlands, the police will label anybody that hands over their PIN-code, as a ’suspect of a criminal act’. Of course, there are things to be said against, and pro…. But, of course, I’m more leaning towards against: I didn’t fucking ask for a fucking banking-card that is protected by something insane as a mere PIN-code.

I didn’t ask for that cheap, vulnerable, very easily exploitable, technology.

But I am forced to use it.

Now, if somebody threatens my life, I either risk getting shot by the guy, or getting sued by the state, because I’m a criminal when I hand over my PIN-code. Like I said: I did not ask for this vulnerable technology, and, I didn’t ask for the banks to move to machines, so they could fire their (human) personnel thus make more money.

So now, in order to fix the problem they have created, they’re labeling us as suspects, pointing the blame at us?

See how they distrust you? And we are expected to trust them?

Remember years ago, when we had to physically go to the bank to get funds and had to show our passport to a person before we got our money.

The whole ‘Gimme your PIN-code at gun-point‘ situation wouldn’t even exist then. Basically, they are trying to fix a broken system that shouldn’t have been introduced in the first place.

Watch my words, in a couple of years we get this same shit dealing with RFID and other ‘new’ stuff.

PIN-code, Criminal, Threat, the Netherlands

- Navaho Gunleg
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