SecurityRatty: What are the odds?

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What are the odds?

2007-02-09 00:00:00 by Burt Kaliski in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast

The crew at RSA happened upon the following post on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/47454997@N00/381185553/
and the question was, "what are the odds"? * With a six-digit display, the odds are 1 in 1,000,000 that a token would display all zeros at a given time. The odds are the same for 999999 and any value in between, they're all equally likely...