Alt text: Admiral Picard initiating the self-destruct sequence of the Stargazer by the vocal command, “Authorization: Picard, zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero”

  • Mayor of NerdocrumbesiaEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    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.

    • Admiral PatrickOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      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 sudoers files like this:

      %sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL