Saturday, June 19, 2004
Life imitates Space Balls?
The Sydney Morning Herald, via The Guardian, claims that the eight-digit code for launching nuclear weapons was, for many years, 00000000.
Kind of puts lousy password practices by lesser mortals in perspective.
Other references to Spaceballs: All Things Christie, F'n Geeks and comments in Nuke-free zone.
Kind of puts lousy password practices by lesser mortals in perspective.
Other references to Spaceballs: All Things Christie, F'n Geeks and comments in Nuke-free zone.
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I like to think that it was an improvement on the preceding 6 digit password 000000.
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: 11:49 am
I read about this a while ago, then again in this month's edition of Bruce Schneir's Cryptogram.
The original article is here.
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The original article is here.
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