Your iPhone PIN Redux

[handslive]

Someone at work pointed to this yesterday (and I see Slashdot has a post).  If I point back here to my earlier post (TL;DR -- PIN selection is important if you're worried about the cops copying all your emails off your iPhone), one of the things I said was that for most people the 4 digit PIN would be fine, especially if you're backing up regularly

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[buhrger]

the other ones i understand. what's up with 5683?

[handslive]

On a standard handset, 5 = (JKL), 6 = (MNO), 8 = (TUV), and 3 = (DEF). So, you can spell LOVE with 5683. As the article indicated, this matches one of the common password choices on popular web sites: "iloveyou".