I did not express an opinion on this. Olga lived 16 years in Germany, where (apparently) SIM PINs used to be very common. Unfortunately I have not found statistics on SIM PIN use anywhere, and nobody else has provided any, despite my question a week ago: How is it possible that Android uses just "PIN" for its non-SIM security, without causing mass confusion?
I have, meanwhile, found evidence that the word "passcode" was in moderate use -- for comparison, about a quarter as often as "passphrase" -- before iOS existed. <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=passphrase%2Cpasscode&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=15> So the original reason for the change, avoiding an iOS-specific term, was perhaps not such a problem after all. And nowadays online banking often uses passcodes. Given that, and after brainstorming alternative possible terms (ID code or number, lock code/number, unlock code/number, access code/number, entry code...) we're happy to revert to passcode. Greeter specification updated. <http://goo.gl/FlviDe> Security & Privacy Settings specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityAndPrivacySettings?action=diff&rev2=51&rev1=50> ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361114 Title: Says "Enter your PIN" when i have no PIN (there's not even a SIM card on the phone) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1361114/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
