{"id":979,"date":"2013-02-09T20:13:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2013-02-09T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:13:48","slug":"how-to-protect-your-hsbc-secure-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/how-to-protect-your-hsbc-secure-key\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your HSBC Secure Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The screen on my first HSBC Secure Key broke. I thought that keeping it in a pencil case, inside my bag would be enough to protect it. <a href=\"http:\/\/deathtosecurekey.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">It wasn&#8217;t<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I ordered a replacement Secure Key. I wanted to make sure this one didn&#8217;t break.<br \/>\nTo help protect my new HSBC Secure Key I decided to keep my key inside the cardboard it arrived in. I used scissors to cut it down to a portable size.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a perfect solution. If sat on, the thin cardboard front would not save it. It does stop it moving around in my pencil case and protects it from being bent.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_980\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-980\" class=\" wp-image-980 \" alt=\"Protected HSBC Secure Key\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184431-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184431-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184431-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My HSBC Secure Key in its cardboard home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_983\" style=\"width: 624px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-983 \" alt=\"Thick cardboard to protect your HSBC Secure Key\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184455-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184455-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130209_184455-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">The Secure Key rests in thick cardboard.<\/p><\/div><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Do you carry a Secure Key with you? How do you protect yours?<\/p>\n<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsbc.co.uk\/1\/2\/customer-support\/online-banking-security\/secure-key\" target=\"_blank\">Secure Key information page &#8211; HSBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsbc.co.uk\/1\/2\/internet-banking-support\/secure-key-troubleshooting?WT.ac=?HBEU_dyn_lnk=InternetBanking_SecureKeyDemoVideo_Link\" target=\"_blank\">Secure Key troubleshooting guide &#8211; HSBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Scrap-the-HSBC-Secure-Key\/220553231298352\" target=\"_blank\">Scrap the HSBC Secure Key &#8211; Facebook Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The screen on my first HSBC Secure Key broke. I thought that keeping it in a pencil case, inside my bag would be enough to protect it. It wasn&#8217;t. I ordered a replacement Secure Key. I wanted to make sure this one didn&#8217;t break. To help protect my new HSBC Secure Key I decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-pro-tips"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathankowald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}