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To play devil's advocate: If Samsung had just stored it in plaintext, as you suggested they might as well do, then the title of the article would've been along
by Ricapar 13y ago
To play devil's advocate: If Samsung had just stored it in plaintext, as you suggested they might as well do, then the title of the article would've been along the lines of "Samsung security FAIL! Stores your PIN code in plaintext, doesn't even try to obfuscate it."
- blueskin_ 13y agoDefinitely. This makes me wonder how other Android implementations store it though, as the space for brute forcing a 4 (or even 8) digit number is so small as to be essentially nonexistent, as long as you're cracking some kind of hash rather than typing in attempts.