PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by stephenr on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:49AM (#28272944)

I grew up with a rotary phone. From memory, 1 was the shortest to dial, 9 the longest.

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by magicalhippo on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:59AM (#28273317)

Actually this is country specific AFAIK. Wikipedia has a picture[1] of a phone from New Zealand which has 9 as the shortest.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial#/media/File:New_Ze...

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by tech2 on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:48AM (#28273587)

This might also explain why the Kiwi emergency number is 111 as a counterpoint to the UK's 999. Interesting!

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by stephenr on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:06AM (#28273353)

Kiwis don't count /s

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by jtnag on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:00AM (#28273002)

I stand corrected then!

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by TuringTest on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:41AM (#28273213)

Pedantic tidbit of archaic lore: this was so because each digit was represented by the number of clicks that the rotating disc triggered on the line (with 10 clicks for 0).

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by addingnumbers on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:35PM (#28280078)

If the dial was locked or missing, you could still "dial" a number by quickly tapping it with the on-hook switch the receiver would rest on, because that was the same effect the rotary dial mechanism was producing

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