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#2539519 12-Aug-2020 16:23

Oblivian:

PM has just mandated a QR display requirement for all businesses still trading during the levels

1 week grace before enforcement.

Really happy about this, and I just wish it had always been compulsory.

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#2539535 12-Aug-2020 16:51

dafman:
Display of QR code now mandatory, one week's grace to comply

About time! Let's hope they make the app less awful at the same time.

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#2539564 12-Aug-2020 17:45

Oblivian: Make it easier, and people will equally cry fowl over lack security measures when it comes to personal information.

It's not securing anything! It's a completely pointless impediment to use, ensuring that every thirty days you have several days where you can't use it until you find where you wrote down your password. On the remote chance that someone steals my phone and manages to unlock it, they're going to use it for Google Pay, not to check whether I was in Warehouse Stationary two weeks ago.

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#2539565 12-Aug-2020 17:48

kiwifidget:
But no announcement via the Covid app either.

Is there anything this app can actually do?

It's very effective at pissing off its users, so it does at least have one selling point: "Not enough grief in your life? Then try the new MoH Covid19 app, and you'll get all you need!".

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#2539566 12-Aug-2020 17:49

neb:
Oblivian: Make it easier, and people will equally cry fowl over lack security measures when it comes to personal information.
It's not securing anything! It's a completely pointless impediment to use, ensuring that every thirty days you have several days where you can't use it until you find where you wrote down your password. On the remote chance that someone steals my phone and manages to unlock it, they're going to use it for Google Pay, not to check whether I was in Warehouse Stationary two weeks ago.

Why is it so hard to remember a password? Or use a password manager? Do you find yourself spending several days to log in to your email or to your internet banking? I'll give you those apps don't necessarily require you to log in every thirty days - but I just don't think this is the end of the world.

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#2539567 12-Aug-2020 17:50

BarTender:
I know the MoH folks were really careful to make sure individuals privacy was respected.

I'm sure all the people who are now in lockdown and have no idea whether they've been exposed to Covid19 or not are really happy that their privacy has been respected.

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#2539568 12-Aug-2020 17:54

antonknee:
Why is it so hard to remember a password? Or use a password manager?

You mean why is it so hard to remember four hundred and ninety-three passwords? That's what I have in my password manager.

I shouldn't need to remember any password. The MoH app isn't protecting anything of any value or importance. No other app I have on my phone forgets its own password every thirty days, and some of them are actually protecting something of value. You've got an app that's difficult to use, can't scan half the QR codes out there, and forgets its own password once a month. Oh, and my one has lost its own tracking data several times as well, don't know if that's another design feature. It's like the whole thing has been deliberately written to piss off users.

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#2539570 12-Aug-2020 17:58

neb: It's very effective at pissing off its users, so it does at least have one selling point: "Not enough grief in your life? Then try the new MoH Covid19 app, and you'll get all you need!".

I like the app, many others do too. If you don't like it you don't have to use it

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#2539582 12-Aug-2020 18:18

neb:

antonknee:

Why is it so hard to remember a password? Or use a password manager?

You mean why is it so hard to remember four hundred and ninety-three passwords? That's what I have in my password manager. I shouldn't need to remember any password.

If you have 493 passwords in your password manager then this is just another one. I can't see why this would even be a problem.

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#2539599 12-Aug-2020 18:35

neb: You mean why is it so hard to remember four hundred and ninety-three passwords? That's what I have in my password manager.

You're not running it anymore anyway. So not sure why you still have such a gripe with it or those of us who still do

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=161&topicid=270639&page_no=30#2528067

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#2539604 12-Aug-2020 18:41

I’ve been using it all last week, before the bad news. iOS.

First time password Was needed, couldn’t remember and for some reason phone wasn’t prompting for fingerprint like it does with other applications.

I reset password, on spot. Code was text to me. Made new password. From memory special character needed as well as an uppercase letter.

I did do save password on phone, so next time needed hopefully it prompts for fingerprint.

All places visited had QR code’s and they scanned no problems.

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#2539676 12-Aug-2020 19:34

Did a sucessful scan at dutch delight tonight. a4 poster with no glare at all and it took about 3 seconds to focus and get it. Not great but better than I have had before.

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#2539725 12-Aug-2020 20:14

I had no issues with any of the scans today; even managed to get one scan before I had the code in frame.

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#2539742 12-Aug-2020 20:38

Oblivian:
You're not running it anymore anyway. So not sure why you still have such a gripe with it or those of us who still do

It doesn't matter whether geeks can cope with the hassle of using it, it needs to be usable by the masses in order to be effective. Since 99.8% of the population have decided not to use it, it's failed. Just look at the response to the latest outbreak, it wasn't "we've notified all the app users and are following up", it was "we have no idea where it's come from or who was in contact with who".

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#2539743 12-Aug-2020 20:41

freitasm:
If you have 493 passwords in your password manager then this is just another one. I can't see why this would even be a problem.

For a geek. It doesn't work for normal people. The first time they get prompted for a password they can't remember, they stop using the app.

For the 0.2% of people who used it in the first place.

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