Whenever I'm asked for a 4 digit PIN: `echo $[RANDOM%10000]`
I'll remember to prioritise 0000 to 2767 for your PINs, then.
Most common PIN codes (2012)
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Re: Most common PIN codes (2012)
#62I love DataGenetics, lots of interesting puzzles like that on there. There's a very unique style to all the visualizations and the solutions/analyses are always clear.
Sadly, there was a post by the author in June 2019 about being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer [0]. There have been no posts since July 2022. I sincerely hope that's just because Nick doesn't have the time to blog anymore.
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#63I moved to Switzerland, and, well, PIN codes for credit cards are 6 digits here by default. And now I'm asking myself why noone else does this. I don't see hordes of Swiss people complaining about being unable to remember a 6-digit PIN at least.
You’ll need to be sure that all the places your cards will go accept the 6 digit pin. Granted this was 20 years ago, but we were in Europe and couldn’t use my wife’s ATM card because she had a 6 digit PIN and all the ATMs were encountered only allowed 4 digits.
Sounds like it may be the reverse with Europe going the 6 digit route, but I think 4 digits is still pretty universal — I think most interfaces provide a enter key to terminate the PIN?
Re: Most common PIN codes (2012)
#64I love DataGenetics, lots of interesting puzzles like that on there. There's a very unique style to all the visualizations and the solutions/analyses are always clear. Sadly, there was a post by the author in June 2019 about being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer [0]. There have been no posts since July 2022. I sincerely hope that's just because Nick doesn't have the time to blog anymore. [0] https://datagenetics.com/b…
It is sad. He died in 2022. https://x.com/datagenetics/status/1579260057904353280?s=46
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#65I like that '1701' is lite up brightly in there... Please excuse me while I go and change my PIN.
I was disappointed that my typical PIN for low security things like the snack storage closet at work, 2112, isn't there. I figured there would be more Rush fans than there are I guess.
Re: Most common PIN codes (2012)
#66I moved to Switzerland, and, well, PIN codes for credit cards are 6 digits here by default. And now I'm asking myself why noone else does this. I don't see hordes of Swiss people complaining about being unable to remember a 6-digit PIN at least.
You’ll need to be sure that all the places your cards will go accept the 6 digit pin. Granted this was 20 years ago, but we were in Europe and couldn’t use my wife’s ATM card because she had a 6 digit PIN and all the ATMs were encountered only allowed 4 digits. Sounds like it may be the reverse with Europe going the 6 digit route, but I think 4 digits is still pretty universal — I think most interfaces provide a ente…
The very first ATM card I ever got, in the mid 80s in Texas, had a 6 digit PIN. When I got to choose it, it let me put 4 to 6 digits so I chose 6. A few years later they sent me my first debit card with a note that it had the same PIN. It did not. It had been truncated to 4 digits. Which made me unhappy because clearly it was sitting in plaintext in a database somewhere.
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#67If this analysis is from 2012, I wonder if the results would look much different using data since then? Would any patterns have changed that much? Other than more birth years in 20--, my initial guess would be no.
Re: Most common PIN codes (2012)
#68I love DataGenetics, lots of interesting puzzles like that on there. There's a very unique style to all the visualizations and the solutions/analyses are always clear. Sadly, there was a post by the author in June 2019 about being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer [0]. There have been no posts since July 2022. I sincerely hope that's just because Nick doesn't have the time to blog anymore. [0] https://datagenetics.com/b…
Sadly no more blog posts from him in this universe:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/17/can-you-solv...
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#691234!? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
For serious though - one reason such utterly trivial codes are common are because the "lock" is just use as a fancy way of preventing the zipper from coming undone.
Likewise, on the internet, a lot of things prompt for passwords that really don't need them. People create throwaway accounts and use them as if they were temporary anonymous sessions.
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#70This piece reminds me of the four-digit lockbox that holds the key to get out onto our roof. Great views up there.
I knew that mathematically it would be pretty easy to brute force, and figured I could belt out a thousand combos per day and probably get it done within the week or so. "Well, no time like the present," I thought, "...better get crackin'." ((of knuckles))
Changed the combo to 0000, pulled the handle, and... click! Opened on the first try. :-D