The nuclear codes for decades was 00000000. That’s all you needed to launch nukes.
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RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI know, right? Like how the hell do you get worried from such a silly movie… Unless he knew the us military defense systems were in fact that weak.
Nah, Reagan was just a wuss.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
essteeyou@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
At least now it’s 00000000!123
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
also, just imagine the threat was that defense systems could be invaded by your average citizen.
Let’s put resources to making them secure then, right? Nah, let’s just make it illegal to guess passwords. That will surely prevent bad things from happening.
primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
basic state logic.
they’re incapable of sucking less. their whole episteme is about centralizing, about reducing thought the farther it gets from the central authority (whether that’s one guy, a class, or a building like the pentagon), but you CAN increase violence, threaten, flatten, disable, basically wherever.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
The story goes that, after watching the film, Reagan asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff ”Could something like this really happen? Could someone break into our most sensitive computers?”, and, after looking into it for a week, the general came back with the reply “Mr. president, the problem is much worse than you think.”, which prompted Reagan into setting off a series of interagency memos and studies that led to the signing of classified national security decision directive NSDD-145, “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security.”.
So… yeah, things probably actually were that bad, or even worse (except for the AI bit, of course).