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The PIN cannot be the identifier directly because the article states the PINs are primarily used for data recovery. If PINs were also your identifier then anyone could trivially do a recovery op on your data.
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The PIN cannot be the identifier directly because the article states the PINs are primarily used for data recovery. If PINs were also your identifier then anyone could trivially do a recovery op on your data.