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Alt text: Admiral Picard initiating the self-destruct sequence of the Stargazer by the vocal command, “Authorization: Picard, zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well he did say authorization picard which I imagine is like unlocking your secret vault with your personal key... I don't think the romulans would be able to say the same thing and get access right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always assumed it was a type of two-factor auth: voice recognition and passcode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. Remember that time Data took over the Enterprise D by impersonating Picard's voice? That should've been the end of voice-print identification.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Indeed. I forget if the authorization codes were introduced into the show after that or were already established.

Either way, that episode highlighted why Starfleet ships shouldn't have sudoers files like this:

%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you can't brute force that.

You can imagine the Romulans thinking that 0000 is just too stupid to pick for a PIN, so never tried it. When they find out, they'll be kicking themselves and wondering why the Federation is a formidable opponent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

carrying on the glorious tradition of Kirk's self desctruct code being '1A' I think the conceit is that there's a vocal recognition aspect along with just the spoken code https://youtu.be/kOvuzrpHqwo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago