Never forget that Picard's PIN is 0000 - eviltoast

cross-posted from: https://dubvee.org/post/7748

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

  • Greezy@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    “This is the LockPickingLawyer, and what I have for you today is a standard-issue Starfleet self-destruct mechanism from Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems…”

    • Freeman@lemmy.pub
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      1 year ago

      Security in the trek universe was always trash.

      Just random entities floating in and a abducting folks for decades.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      The Borg Queen was probably like, “Fine, if you won’t tell me the access codes, I’ll just brute force them! 0000…wait, what?”

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    1 year ago

    I always figured the real authentication was tied into the comm badges, and the authorization codes were just a fancy “are you sure”

    • lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      voice recognition biosensor data, whatever psychic thing that lets computer know when youre addressing it and not just saying the word computer.