Submitted 1 day ago by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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Top Scene: S1E05: Babel
Bottom Scene: S1E06: Captive Pursuit
The Federation has all the best practices:
Single points of failure everywhere
weak security controls
poor scalability on computer systems
seemingly no thought of safety when designing things
centralization of all critical functions
O’Brian has a rant from DS9 about the backups having backups on federation ships.
There is a episode of Star Trek Voyager where some space pirates steal the main computer.
The concept of entire space stations and starships ships being dependent on a single main computer is pretty common across all whole franchise. It seems like a pretty big problem to have a central point of failure that massive.
And yet they all fail.
Don't forget the rocks built into every console
"Ask a follow-up question!
Between the episodes the computer has received the ChatGPT 5.0 upgrade.
“Good catch- ‘Deep Space Nine’ does have forty seven 'e’s in the name”
The double ‘e’ just after the second ‘a’ is what trips most people up!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The importance of having a whitelist instead of a blacklist.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Star Trek has security imaginable. It isn’t even specific to the federation.