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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.
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.