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

  • @[email protected]English
    7•1 year 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 PatrickOPEnglish
      12•1 year ago

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

      • Mayor of NerdocrumbesiaEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        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.

        • Admiral PatrickOPEnglish
          5•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

  • GortEnglish
    5•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.