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		lowbloodsugar 37 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop manda... Because nobody would use the same pin for different devices. This is a farcical argument.

tremon 37 days ago [–]

Those are some strong words and nothing to back them up. Please, feel free to explain to us in your own words what threat model this device PIN is defending against and how it fails at that.

lowbloodsugar 37 days ago | [–]

The argument presented was that a pin is better because it is only for that device. Which is false for 99% or more of users.

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