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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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