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Nov 21, 2010 | 3:43 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PTravel

Please tell me more about "duress passwords." How does those work?

I'm guessing it's one way of setting a password that if you enter it, it'll wipe the computer (or at least the important data) in the background, and look like it's doing normal work in the foreground.

Quote:

Originally Posted by yyzvoyageur

I thought that reverse PIN thing was an urban myth.

I've had one for a building access code pin, it'll disarm the alarm, yet alert to entry-by-duress.

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