▲ 50 ▼ What do you guys think? Would this greatly decrease your chances of being hacked? (cdn.lifehack.org) submitted 9 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] morgenman@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) Assuming your device has a numpad.. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago True — that would be a limitation of using a physical keyboard to input the password on someone else's Windows computer. In many ways, you can use the on-screen keyboard. If you're logging into Windows, it might be a problem. However, if you're on their Windows machine, you could just use charmap.exe. I forgot game consoles. Xbox and Switch have access to accents as well. I imagine PlayStation does as well, but my last PlayStation was a PS3 (still own it). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago True — that would be a limitation of using a physical keyboard to input the password on someone else's Windows computer. In many ways, you can use the on-screen keyboard. If you're logging into Windows, it might be a problem. However, if you're on their Windows machine, you could just use charmap.exe. I forgot game consoles. Xbox and Switch have access to accents as well. I imagine PlayStation does as well, but my last PlayStation was a PS3 (still own it). permalink fedilink source parent