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Interesting analysis, but I question the use of a proxy for the source data. I doubt that PINs like 1234 and 1111 are nearly as common when an actual bank is in
by peterjmag 14y ago
Interesting analysis, but I question the use of a proxy for the source data. I doubt that PINs like 1234 and 1111 are nearly as common when an actual bank is involved. At least, I would hope that people take their ATM PIN more seriously than a password for a relatively unimportant website account, but maybe I'm giving the general public too much credit.
- endianswap 14y agoAdditionally, if I'm reading this properly, it only includes people who chose numeric passwords when they could have chosen anything (presumably beyond alphanumeric even). This means that all of the folks who chose a password outside of the PIN domain (presumably because they know better) don't have their PINs represented here, and I'd wager that a better proportion of those numbers are beyond 1234, 0000, etc..
- grecy 14y agoMy buddy gave me his card yesterday and asked me to go to the ATM for him. His PIN? 4321
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- sitharus 14y agoHere in New Zealand banks reject sequential and repeating numbers for your PIN, and they also check for your birthdate. So the trick is to find their anniversary or first child's birthday.
- drstewart 14y agoThat's awfully nice of them to significantly reduce the search space.
- sitharus 14y agoIt is rather. Though given that the majority of transactions are electronic here people share PINs all the time, that irks me.
- sjwright 14y agoYou're sharing pins for electronic transactions? What the what? (I'm over the pond in Australia, and I've never shared any of my various pins with anyone.)
- sitharus 14y agoI wouldn't! A lot of people do though, it's the downside of a mostly cashless economy, but with the rise of internet banking and near-instant transfers online it should go away.
- sjwright 14y agoBut why would you? What is the pin for??
- JamesBlair 14y agoAs someone who knows someone else's PIN: if they're too inconvenienced by making the payment themselves and don't realize what security it's meant to offer, they'll be quite content to hand the card and the PIN to someone they trust.
- brazzy 14y agoThat's one thing the article should have taught you: a large search space is worthless when, given the chance, customers restrict themselves to tiny parts of it.