For US strategic nuclear arsenal was all zeroes until 1977?

www.wimp.com/allzeroes

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Nice, looking forward to seeing that.

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Their wasn't any codes before that, either way it takes 2 people to launch a missile.

The put the keys far enough apart that its impossible for one person to turn them.

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Not sure I'm buying it. My dad was a launch officer early in his career... said he never saw zero codes. Interesting footage, though.

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I asked a retiring USAF colonel about that because he was a lieutenant in those silos. He threw up the B ravo Sierra flag on that one, because he had to distribute them for all periodic exercises and they misfiled one once. They were looking all over through all the other packages until they found that one and put them all back in the right order.

Not sure how the exercise worked but he was pretty insistent when I showed him this post.

Maybe it happened before him, but I still trust his word.

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The nice thing about a manual system is you can't brute force crack it with a computer.

Back in the early days of *nix passwords would be stored in a .password file. These files were readily available to anyone who wanted to view them and of course before they were shadowed. We though oh heck, these area all encrypted. Nobody will figure them out. Then someone wrote a program called crack and everyone with a 286 and a long list of words was able to gain access to othere people's accounts. When I ran it on my system I was pretty surprised at how many people had their passwords set to a common word like fido or had them the same as their usernames.

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1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

anyone know the documentary that clips is from?

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I would like to know as well, I want to see the whole thing in context

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1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

I found it.
http://countdowntozerofilm.com/

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King of Druidia (Dick van Patten) - "Alright, the combination is...1...2...3...4...5."

Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) - "1..2..3..4..5? What moron uses that as a combination?"

President Scroob (Mel Brooks) - "Damn, I better change the combination on my luggage!"

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Sure, if you accept the completely non-agenda driven, objective observations of Bruce Blair. http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm

Might it be correct? Yes. Might he be referring to a training code? Possibly. Might he be referring to the practice of setting all manual timers, indicators, etc to all zeroes as a way of preventing an inadvertent wrong setting or disclosure of the actual setting? Maybe.

Part of the pre-flight settings for flying were to set weapons timers to zero. Sometimes this was for self-test functions, sometimes to ensure you didn't inadvertently leave the previous guy's settings in the box. A good crew chief would almost always have this done for you.

My F-in-Law used to program Minuteman missiles. I'll try to remember to ask him. Bastard probably wont talk.

Any manual multiple-digit lock I use is ALWAYS reset to zero(s)...changing only ONE digit upon closing allows anyone less that 30 seconds to get into your package or whatever you supposedly "locked up" securely.

Now, if you "scramble" the dials and really work over the lock, then maybe you're secure.

However, if they really want your stuff, some simple dial lock ain't holding back the flood.

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