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0 pointsAnthony-G4y ago0 comments

I like how you redacted the target but not the password – though I’m pretty sure the real password is alphanumeric and based on a family member: http://www.bash.org/?quote=244321

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mdp20214y ago· 2 in thread

One of the actual big-P Passwords decades ago was actually

0000000

> during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that to minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile, for nearly two decades they intentionally set the launch codes at every silo in the US to 8 zeroes

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/nearly-two-d...

...so, a quasi-implicit-and-optional parameter.

Anthony-GOP4y ago

Wow! From an InfoSec perspective, that’s hard to believe but when you understand that every large group of humans has competing interests and large bureaucracies don’t have perfect chains of command, it’s totally believable. I guess it’s a high-stakes example of the difficulty in getting the right balance between security and convenience.

Edit: on a related note, a few years ago I was shocked to hear the story of how a simple accident while carrying out routine maintenance of liquid-fuelled nuclear missiles almost resulted in a devastating nuclear explosion in the American heartland: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile...

jaywalk4y ago

That was what I was paying homage to.

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