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After the BBC contacted us for comment on this story I thought it’d be useful and interesting to share the details that were omitted, as well as the reasoning behind some of my assumptions (none of which involve the Bermuda triangle BTW).
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Encrypting the database has done virtually nothing to secure the doll and app.
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Or not. Why I think emoji PINs are mostly pointless.
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