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Old Sep 3, 2015 | 10:35 am
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physioprof
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Originally Posted by Richard Chen
It's great that UA 's laywers disavow themselves of all responsibility. Only a massively publicly embarassing hack that got publicized would hold them accountable. Even China's hacking United for 2 years wasn't enough embarassment as they silenced the matter.

I never login with my PIN since a 4-digit PIN is far far too weak a form of security in this day & age in which UA can't keep up in any practical way. I also use a password which isn't used anywhere else, as naturally, expecting those passwords to be hacked someday if not already.
Not logging in with your PIN doesn't help, since you can't disable PIN access.
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