- cross-posted to:
- risa@startrek.website
- cross-posted to:
- risa@startrek.website
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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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.
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?
I always assumed it was a type of two-factor auth: voice recognition and passcode.
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.
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
sudoersfiles like this:%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
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
That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!
