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At 80ms per attempt you need 3 months to brute force an 8 pin password. Things get ugly soon btw, 9 characters 2.5 years, 10 characters 25 years and so on. We reach millions of years at 15 characters

edit: I was calculating on the assumption that you can only use numbers as a pin



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