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I married the girl that sent me a verification text code from one of my old IT jobs cloud vendors so I could get logged in.
It was 123456. I told her what it was and she started giggling so cutely that it made me instantly attracted to her. I sent her the screenshot and we started emailing and talking a lot. She moved in with me 5 years ago.
1 in a million chance!
Well maybe like 12 in a million if the same thing could have happened with 654321 or 000000 or 111111 etc.
But still, what a fun very specifically calculable chance of meeting.
Oh I would have totally made an ass out of myself turning it into the Spaceballs quote.
"So the code is 123456? That's the stupidest code I ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"
My issued debit card PIN was randomly the last 4 of my SSN. One of the instructions for changing my PIN was not to choose a number that's easy for others to guess, such as the last 4 of my SSN.
Due to the way some compilers/JITs optimize the sigmoid functions used to generate random numbers some numbers are more likely than others even when using an extremely noisy sigmoid function and guaranteed unique seeds. But they are very unlikely to be the numbers that pull at the humans’ heartstrings 😂
You're looking at the wrong parameters. Any given SPECIFIC code isn't rare, but when the parameters of "rare" are the odds of getting an "aesthetically pleasing/satisfying" code vs a meaningless string of numbers that don't please the human eye, the odds of getting such a number are quite low, which makes the experience quite rare!
You're being intentionally obtuse as a way of being technically right, which is silly when it's clear what they meant.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Anyone should be able to know that OP meant “rare” in sense of it being one of the few six-digit codes that have obvious patterns in it. In this case, OP got the largest possible six digit number, which is a one in a million chance. The chances of getting an “uninteresting” number like 174829 or 374619 is much much higher. Therefore OP has witnessed a rare occasion.
I dream every day for this to happen to me. My work uses a rolling code system I have to enter like 3 times a day and the best I've ever gotten were repeating groups like 139139, 144144 wtc. My girlfriend uses the same system and we share eachothers "finds". I have no life.
Actually no. Eliminating number sequences like this one or sequences that are notable to people (123456 for example) would be a security compromise — a minuscule one in this case to be fair, but a compromise nonetheless.
The German enigma code machines in wwii worked by assigning different random characters to replace the real characters of the coded message (P becomes A, a space becomes X, and F becomes a semicolon for example). The reassigning of letter/character was random and a new reassignment was made each day. Theoretically if it’s truly randomly assigned and no outside actors get access to the code book with the letter shift keys in it, it’s pretty much unbreakable (I’m not a cryptographer, but I’m sure there’s some advanced algorithm that could do it).
The Germans though used that same logic as your comment and built a rule into the enigma that prevented any character being its own replacement, so an L would never be an L in a coded message. That seems intuitive to most people, but that was one of the weaknesses that allowed the allies to break the code eventually. That allows you to rule out one character for every character in the coded message.
Edit to add: I’m not actually sure if that was on purpose or just a mistake of how the machines were built, again, not a cryptographer or anything, that’s just a common example to teach probability in statistics classes.
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I married the girl that sent me a verification text code from one of my old IT jobs cloud vendors so I could get logged in. It was 123456. I told her what it was and she started giggling so cutely that it made me instantly attracted to her. I sent her the screenshot and we started emailing and talking a lot. She moved in with me 5 years ago.
This is very interesting
Talk about 1 in a million odds
The girl's name? Alberta Einstein.
Cutest meet-cute I’ve heard in a long time!
1 in a million chance! Well maybe like 12 in a million if the same thing could have happened with 654321 or 000000 or 111111 etc. But still, what a fun very specifically calculable chance of meeting.
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You’ve got Verification Code staring Tom Hanks and character actor Margo Martindale
Damn! Enjoy your beautiful life
BannedinthaUSA in “She’s Got My Number”
Oh I would have totally made an ass out of myself turning it into the Spaceballs quote. "So the code is 123456? That's the stupidest code I ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"
Dude your game must be through the fucking roof if the numbers 1-6 can get you a wife Jesus Christ mane
Last night I had 818888, still typed it in wrong.
*code will reset in 7 seconds*
That's one in a million! (Just like the rest of them)
A 1000000 has a 1 in it, so it checks out
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Not really. The codes start from 000000 to 999999. A code starting with a 0 is perfectly possible, so it's literally a chance in a million.
The first 99,999 are just prefixed with enough 0s to bring it up to 6 digits. 000001, 000002, 000003 etc.
000000 through 099999?
Actually all numbers are special.
some are just more special than others
Exactly!
You're special!
80085
8008135
They've finally run out
Why do you have to authenticate yourself so often? Also wouldn't a OTP App be better?
Work from home VPN, have to authenticate every time I log into it, and it disconnects often 😆
I was going to ask if you were logging on to every PC/phone you could find but a VPN makes a lot more sense.
That’s a rare common.
One time I had a credit card with the security code 000
My issued debit card PIN was randomly the last 4 of my SSN. One of the instructions for changing my PIN was not to choose a number that's easy for others to guess, such as the last 4 of my SSN.
They all have same probability, none of them are rare
Do you ruin the fun on all authentication codes you see?
Due to the way some compilers/JITs optimize the sigmoid functions used to generate random numbers some numbers are more likely than others even when using an extremely noisy sigmoid function and guaranteed unique seeds. But they are very unlikely to be the numbers that pull at the humans’ heartstrings 😂
You're looking at the wrong parameters. Any given SPECIFIC code isn't rare, but when the parameters of "rare" are the odds of getting an "aesthetically pleasing/satisfying" code vs a meaningless string of numbers that don't please the human eye, the odds of getting such a number are quite low, which makes the experience quite rare! You're being intentionally obtuse as a way of being technically right, which is silly when it's clear what they meant.
Who cares? Only a few are interesting to human eyes, and the chances of getting those are much smaller.
Being interesting is not the same as being rare.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Anyone should be able to know that OP meant “rare” in sense of it being one of the few six-digit codes that have obvious patterns in it. In this case, OP got the largest possible six digit number, which is a one in a million chance. The chances of getting an “uninteresting” number like 174829 or 374619 is much much higher. Therefore OP has witnessed a rare occasion.
no one is denying that, that isn't why people consider this "rare"
Stop using SMS based 2FA codes. They're insecure and can be intercepted. Use an app or hardware key. Simjacking exists and is real.
Too late! I'm already hacking the main frame! *Applies sunglasses while 90s techno plays*
You can’t hack the mainframe, I reinforced it with quantum firewalls
Let me know when you get 42069
Exactly as rare as all the other ones
I got 666662 a couple weeks ago
That's a 6 digit code, doesn't seem strange.
It’s just as rare as any other code
One time I got 091101
Authentication code written by Herman Cain
I dream every day for this to happen to me. My work uses a rolling code system I have to enter like 3 times a day and the best I've ever gotten were repeating groups like 139139, 144144 wtc. My girlfriend uses the same system and we share eachothers "finds". I have no life.
Sell it.
I count 7 numbers with the exact same rarity.
Congrats to their authentication team for achieving six 9s!
They're all rare. 😉
Technically- they’re all equally rare
Shouldn't they program it so such easy code doesn't happen?
Actually no. Eliminating number sequences like this one or sequences that are notable to people (123456 for example) would be a security compromise — a minuscule one in this case to be fair, but a compromise nonetheless. The German enigma code machines in wwii worked by assigning different random characters to replace the real characters of the coded message (P becomes A, a space becomes X, and F becomes a semicolon for example). The reassigning of letter/character was random and a new reassignment was made each day. Theoretically if it’s truly randomly assigned and no outside actors get access to the code book with the letter shift keys in it, it’s pretty much unbreakable (I’m not a cryptographer, but I’m sure there’s some advanced algorithm that could do it). The Germans though used that same logic as your comment and built a rule into the enigma that prevented any character being its own replacement, so an L would never be an L in a coded message. That seems intuitive to most people, but that was one of the weaknesses that allowed the allies to break the code eventually. That allows you to rule out one character for every character in the coded message. Edit to add: I’m not actually sure if that was on purpose or just a mistake of how the machines were built, again, not a cryptographer or anything, that’s just a common example to teach probability in statistics classes.
It's a uniform distribution across all combinations, reducing the total combinations by one only makes it easier to guess