Alt text: Admiral Picard initiating the self-destruct sequence of the Stargazer by the vocal command, “Authorization: Picard, zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero”
Alt text: Admiral Picard initiating the self-destruct sequence of the Stargazer by the vocal command, “Authorization: Picard, zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero”
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
sudoersfiles like this:%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL