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·
      2 years 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 Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
        4·
        2 years 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