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

  • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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?

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
          5·
          2 years 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

  • chtk@feddit.nlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

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

  • Gort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years 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.

  • ianhclark510English
    2·
    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