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 Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in 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) Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: Confirmed Status in The Unity 8 shell: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-system-settings” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu RTM: Fix Released Bug description: See http://i.imgur.com/JORXscB.png i guess it should say "Enter your passcode" or something, PIN is something that i totally associate with SIM PIN in the phone context To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1361114/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
