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neatchee

From a human behavior analysis standpoint, this image is absolutely fascinating. There is so much information about human behavior that can be extracted from the data represented here

EDIT: OMFG 1701 IS THE DESIGNATION OF THE STAR SHIP ENTERPRISE (NCC-1701). TREKKIES WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!? :zerotwoevillaugh:

#security #anthropology #psychology

A heat graph showing the most and least commonly used 4-digit pin number based on 3.4 million records from data breaches. The first two digits are on the vertical axis, from 00 to 99. The second two digits are on the horizontal axis from 00 to 99. Frequency of use is a color scale from white to yellow to orange to black. Several interesting segments are annotated, such as the high frequency of use for repeating digits like 1212 or 5353 as a yellow diagonal line bisecting the graph, or birth years (pins starting with 19) as a horizontal yellow line centered around the location 1975. There is a scattering of black and nearly black locations for the most rare pins with little apparent reasoning. The value 1701 is also highlighted as a very common pin code with no obvious reason
14 May at 5:13 | Open on urusai.social
24 comments
laguiri

@neatchee 5225, 7319, 7391... people do like to make a pattern which their PIN.

14 May at 5:49 | Open on queer.party
neatchee

@laguiri yuuuuuup. We all think we're being so clever but you're just putting yourself in the "top 20 pins to try with your friend's debit card" list lmao

14 May at 7:13 | Open on urusai.social
Nikelui
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neatchee

@nikelui omfg it's the Star Trek Enterprise's designation, NCC-1701. GODDAMNIT Trekkies this is why we can't have nice things! :sby_HandOverFace:

14 May at 7:16 | Open on urusai.social
お嬢ちゃん

@neatchee I wonder if 1701 is popular because on a keypad it's easy to type/remember, but doesn't feel as obvious as some others?

wonder what the frequency of 1793 is

14 May at 6:44 | Open on blorbo.social
neatchee

@ojou how do you figure 1701 is easier than any other combo?

14 May at 6:53 | Open on urusai.social
neatchee

@ojou nope, it's because the star ship enterprise is designation ncc-1701 :HoloLaughCry:

14 May at 7:20 | Open on urusai.social
お嬢ちゃん

@neatchee because it's positions not numbers a la 1397 etc

14 May at 7:21 | Open on blorbo.social
deciago
:blobcataww:

@neatchee by this point even the data breachers know more about my pin than I do. I don't know what my pin is. I make them by visualise a pattern and then I type the pattern. Seriously, if I ever get a gun to my head for passwords and not given a correctly aligned* pinpad, just pull the trigger. Neither of us are finding it out.

*Apparently the ones start with 987 are as common as 123. Guess how I found out.

14 May at 7:50 | Open on toot.cat
neatchee

@BigShellEvent I had a friend like this who literally couldn't tell me his Wi-Fi password except as "draw a star on a numpad" LMAO it was infuriating

14 May at 7:59 | Open on urusai.social
Retro Goth Bunny

@neatchee Well, my go-to 4 digit PIN is also related to a piece of media :btr_bocchi_trash_lurk:

14 May at 8:39 | Open on urusai.social
René M. Grabow
neatchee

@yours_truly the black pixels simply indicate the most rare combinations. It's a little misleading because the scale goes something like 90th through 97th percentile: dark orange, 98th percentile: grey, 99th percentile: black. So while a bright yellow or white pixel next to an orange pixel carries meaning - here's a unique value that holds some significance to humans - a black pixel next to an orange pixel isn't very meaningful. It's usually just going to be the statistically rarest value along rare values, like a min/max function.

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@yours_truly the black pixels simply indicate the most rare combinations. It's a little misleading because the scale goes something like 90th through 97th percentile: dark orange, 98th percentile: grey, 99th percentile: black. So while a bright yellow or white pixel next to an orange pixel carries meaning - here's a unique value that holds some significance to humans - a black pixel next to an orange pixel isn't very meaningful. It's usually just going to be the statistically rarest value along rare...

14 May at 10:11 | Open on urusai.social
neatchee

@yours_truly Now, if you can find a black inside an island of white/yellow pixels, THAT would be interesting. It would probably correlate to values tied to superstitions.

And upon consideration, I wouldn't be surprised if there are at least a few black pixels of that nature

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14 May at 10:11 | Open on urusai.social
neatchee

@yours_truly 8068 having zero records is interesting but feels like an anomaly in the data, or a recording error?

Though maybe it's some kind of uncanny valley? Something like: it's just close enough to looking non-random that people looking for arbitrary values avoid it, while also being just barely arbitrary enough to never catch the attention of people who prefer patterns.

Pure speculation. Looking at the raw data where it suddenly jumps from a steady decrease in frequency down to zero for just the last value, I get the feeling it's just an error in the data.

Or maybe it's the author's debit pin that they "removed" from the data lol

@yours_truly 8068 having zero records is interesting but feels like an anomaly in the data, or a recording error?

Though maybe it's some kind of uncanny valley? Something like: it's just close enough to looking non-random that people looking for arbitrary values avoid it, while also being just barely arbitrary enough to never catch the attention of people who prefer patterns.

14 May at 10:21 | Open on urusai.social
Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:

@yours_truly @neatchee Seeing it a zero makes me think about a data error 😄

14 May at 11:20 | Open on localization.cafe
René M. Grabow

@aran @neatchee

Yes, maybe.
It could be due to the way the data was collected.

14 May at 12:01 | Open on troet.cafe
Mans R

@neatchee I'm curious about the scattered black dots. What makes people unwilling to pick those numbers?

The bright spots that are not dates or simple patterns probably have some obvious explanation such as a connection to something in popular culture, e.g. 1701 from Star Trek.

14 May at 11:00 | Open on society.oftrolls.com
Mizah

@neatchee Inhales…

AUTHORIZATION CODE NCC-1701-D

They learned secure authentication methods from the best! :3

14 May at 11:57 | Open on macrofurs.social
Marta Threadbare

@neatchee WHY? because I use my card like once a year and there are limited attempts to log in, better use a number I always remember, it's either that or 1138.

14 May at 12:44 | Open on retro.pizza
Fuck Work

@neatchee

It's funny because 4 digits is a tiny keyspace for a modern computer to search as it is and generally people assume they are protected by the entirety of that key space, when in reality, most passwords can be cracked much more efficiently by statistically shrinking the key space, because of how predictable our behavior is.

14 May at 16:10 | Open on kolektiva.social
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