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...PIN, which has been used by students primarily to access their grades or view their termbill online, will be expanded in the coming years to ensure a secure way for students, faculty and employees to verify their identity, according to David R. Wamback, manager of information and identification services in Holyoke Center...
Wamback said the University is moving towards implementing the PIN in more situations so that students and employees will not have multiple passwords which might be forgotten or compromised...
...recognized that if a universal PIN were used for multiple applications both within a faculty and university-wide, that users would be more likely to remember them and keep them secure,” he said...
There are no security concerns about using the PIN in more situations, since the authentication is done entirely by a central computer, and the individual applications do not ever access PINs, Wamback said...
...PIN has expanded since it was first developed...