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Re:Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow? by digikata on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:30PM (#14638012)
Don't simple mnemonics have a risk of helping to reduce the search space to guess a pin?
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Re:Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow? by stickfigure on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:26PM (#14639079)
We're talking about a 4-digit search space. The system already needs (and presumably already has) extreme rate-limiting measures.
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