Posted by Shelly on 08/03/05 01:34

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> mydejamail@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> BTW - who cares if there are duplicates? For instance - my bank assigns a
> 4 digit PIN for my ATM card. And I KNOW they have more than 10,000 users
> out there. There are a lot of duplicates.
>
> PINs don't need to be unique - just long enough that they can't be guessed
> easily. And I don't think someone's going to guess a 16 digit PIN in any
> reasonable time, even if it is computer generated. And you could always
> lock them out after 1,000,000 consecutive failures :-).

.....and who is even going to remember his OWN 16 digit pin?

Shelly

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