Sky pin number hack

For this, the Sky customer presses the menu button on the remote and changes the settings in the service menu. However, initially the current PIN must be entered to select a new one.

Many Sky users - especially in households without children and adolescents - ask yourself if you can disable the Sky parental control PIN. Unfortunately, turning off the parental control PIN for legal reasons, is not possible. At least you can turn the need to dial the Sky parental control PIN at least for one day each.

Berry analyzed passwords from previously released and exposed tables and security breaches, filtering the results to just those that were exactly four digits long []. There are 10, possible combinations that the digits can be arranged into to form a four-digit code. Berry analyzed those to find which are the least and most predictable. He speculates that, if users select a four-digit password for an online account or other web site, it's not a stretch to use the same number for their four-digit bank PIN codes.

What he found, he says, was a "staggering lack of imagination" when it comes to selecting passwords. Last year SplashData compiled a list of the most common numerical and word-based passwords and found that "password" and "" topped the list.

Berry says a whopping We don't like hard-to-remember numbers and "no one thinks their wallet will get stolen," Berry says. Many of the commonly used passwords are, of course, dates: birthdays, anniversaries, year of birth, etc.

If someone finds it, they've got the date of birth on there. At least use a parent's date of birth [as a password]," says Berry. Somewhat intriguing was 22 on the most common password list: It seems random, but if you look at a telephone keypad or ATM keypad , you'll see those numbers are straight down the middle — yet another sign that we're uncreative and lazy password makers.

The least-used PIN is , Berry found, with just 25 occurrences in the 3. See the second table for the least popular passwords. Why this set of numbers? Berry guesses, "It's not a repeating pattern, it's not a birthday, it's not the year Columbus discovered America, it's not And for some reason, they don't like using pairs of numbers that have larger numerical gaps between them. Combinations like 45 and 67 occur much more frequently than 29 and The Oracle of Omaha knows how to beat inflation.

So ride his coattails. Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, in a Tuesday monthly market update says that the used car market is where she is expecting possible losses after a surge in values. I had the same argument when i worked for an agency with british gas.

Their idea of data protection was asking questions that could be answered directly from a gas bill. You could get your hands on one and raise merry hell with them without even being the account holder. When i raised this point I was basically told 'we know'. One of the worst case of security stupidity I have come across is Nationwide building society, they print your customer number which is your login on direct mail labels.

They have additional measures but how daft is that. The other classic web site flsw is emailing a password reminder, most sites have stopped this now. To me the issue is that there is now no security at all and that the single pin is the password for everything.

I would like to see a matrix of passwords which may default to same pin initially for the confused but allow some flexibility. For example if I want to give a teenager a pin for PG or 12 films but restrict them from 15 and above. Right now we lock complete channels like MTV one because of content. We even lock disney from our younger children as the programming encourages what I would call bad attitudes. Another "bug" in the sky plus system is the ability to remove series link on a programme that has KEEP selected.

This feature should be protected when a programme has KEEP in the same way that deletion is protected. Leveller Standard Member. I found this post really useful, though not for the OP's intended purpose. I can't find my PIN, as I've not been prompted for it for ages.

An update must have blanked my preferences as I now need it to watch anything I had recorded. Just goes to show, one man's poison and all that Anyhow, thanks! You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads J. Replies 6 Views 2K. Oct 4, cossie. Replies 20 Views 2K. Nov 28, WattsX How to repair smartphones without disclosing login details to repairer?