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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”
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 sudoers files like this:
%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!
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.
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