On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:
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As a side remark, every burglar alarm connected to a phone that I've ever seen has this feature: a code that one can type under duress that will both turn off the alarm and call for help. I wonder how many users will remember this code when under duress.
Many (if not most) alarm companies make the duress code the *reverse* of the normal code.
This might backfire in the case of self-destructing data. If the attacker backs up the data, and enters the duress code, the real code is easy to guess the second time around.
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