phiresky@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoHacking in 1980 vs Hacking in 2024lemmy.worldimagemessage-square116linkfedilinkarrow-up11.54Karrow-down117
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minus-squaretallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 years ago Well considering that the US nuclear launch codes were just zeros for a while I’ve seen some statements that this was apocryphal. https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/21/air-force-swears-our-nuke-launch-code-was-never-00000000/ Though you could argue – since there was a point in time prior to PALs where there was no authorization system at all – that a very functionally-similar state existed prior to the implementation of those codes.
I’ve seen some statements that this was apocryphal.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/21/air-force-swears-our-nuke-launch-code-was-never-00000000/
Though you could argue – since there was a point in time prior to PALs where there was no authorization system at all – that a very functionally-similar state existed prior to the implementation of those codes.