Aggraphine wrote: »The pin exists to protect players items if they are on a public or shared computer (more commonly net cafes in kms).
For its intended function, it works perfectly fine. It seems pointless to you because you're attributing it, incorrectly, to preventing hackers from getting at your nodes or storage items when, in reality, it's to prevent someone from screwing with your items or nodes when you get up from your PC in a public setting.