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From: waters@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jim Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: random passwords (was Re: Worm...)
Message-ID: <5598@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 88 06:26:22 GMT
References: <28399@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <278@aber-cs.UUCP> <147@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: waters@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jim Waters)
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In article <147@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>No need to wrack your brain thinking about this; just get an account
>at any bank with an ATM.  I've yet to hear of one that uses a password
>(i.e., a PIN) that is more than a 4-digit number.  Some banks even

>[Any errors in the above are due to failures in the logic of the keyboard,
>not in the fingers that did the typing.]

Actually, I have a 7 digid "secret number," and I believe that 9 is the limit.
We go to the bank to choose them, so no one else ever sees the number.

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What's that?  Don't I have anything really profound to say here . . . Nope.