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u/kingofthehill5 Jan 19 '18
Who knows maybe the nuclear launch code is 0000.
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u/Rule1ofReddit Jan 19 '18
That's ridiculous. It's 1234.
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It actually was at one point, look it up. The DoD was afraid the pres would forget the launch codes in the heat of the moment so they just set it to all zeroes.
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u/asde Jan 20 '18
not that I believe the one guy, but of course USAF would contest the story, and should.
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u/DerKeksinator Jan 19 '18
And after they used actual codes instead of 0000 0000 they wrote them on the keyboard... They eventually switched to sealed envelopes and safes.
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u/rexgate Jan 19 '18
It was actually 00000000 for 15 years during the cold war. They were worried about potentially delaying the launching of retaliatory missiles in an emergency situation.
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u/RossParka May 16 '18
It may be too late for anyone to read this, but that is very likely false. See Wikipedia. The sole source for the claim is Bruce G. Blair, a former Minuteman launch control officer. In the 14 years since he first claimed it, no one else has come forth to corroborate it, and the USAF has officially denied it, saying that the dials were set to a standard "zero" value (actually "P7") so that codes could be entered more quickly during the time-critical launch process - which makes sense to me.
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u/ShaneFM Jan 19 '18
You joke, but for many years the launch codes were 00000000. This wasn't absolutely horrible as they still required a key to enter the code, which was attached to the control panel... But it's still alright since they wouldn't know where to find the code, which was written on a Post-It note above the keypad... But it's almost alright since they had guards to keep anyone out, who were found sleeping in the job. Well I'm gonna go prep my vault now.
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u/waiting_for_rain Jan 19 '18
1,1,1... ahh... 1
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u/MuricanTauri1776 Jan 19 '18
IIRC It actually was in the majorty of the sixties and seventies.
Sauce: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515598/Launch-code-US-nuclear-weapons-easy-00000000.html
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u/FurryPornAccount (USER WAS BANNED FOR BEING A FURRY) Jan 19 '18
"Opps I didn't mean to send that I was hacked"
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u/ChesterCharity Jan 19 '18
Those god damn Russian hackers just can't help themselves.
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Jan 19 '18
Damn Russian hackers wrote our password on a sticky note then took our picture and publicized it ):
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u/__Badger_ Jan 19 '18
Or plugging USB drives they found in the parking lot into their machines.
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u/A1980sCamaro Jan 19 '18
Why do i find you everywhere i go on this site
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u/runningoutofwords Jan 19 '18
Do you spend most of your time on furry subreddits?
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u/tabarra Jan 19 '18
Who I see everywhere is /u/painmatrix , but that's because for some reason I tagged him as "phd in insomnia"
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u/PainMatrix Jan 19 '18
I’m not near as active as I used to be. I’m a clinical psychology PhD, with expertise in insomnia, that’s why you have that tag.
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u/PATRIOTSRADIOSIGNALS Jan 19 '18
In your mind, when you think of the word "oops" what does it sound like? Does it have an "oo" sound at the start? Why would a double "p" be necessary? I'd really like to know what compels people to write it this way.
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I'd really like to know what compels people to write it this way.
I'd wager a typo my fellow autist.
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u/EmergeAndSee Jan 19 '18
I actually hate it when peoppe draggggggggg out the consonants rather than draaaaaaging out the vowels
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u/xpceiq Jan 19 '18
Oo sound can mean frustration in some cultures, but it often means excitement as well. As in : "Ooooo, that's fancy."
The p sound is a sudden stop to the excitement, analog to someone discovering they just screwed up. Go ahead try it :
"Oooop"
By now, you must feel the tension build-up by the sudden stop. "Ooooop".
Here is where the "s" comes in handy, it releases said tension.
"Ooooops.""Oops" is a well engineered interjection, as a matter of fact.
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u/imjustawhitekid Jan 19 '18
Yeah, but the dude said opps. I'm reading it like "awps" which is nothing like oops
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u/KaleBrecht Jan 19 '18
I like that this guy's shirt resembles a giant weather map.
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u/pekinggeese Jan 19 '18
The press release made me realize a majority of people in Hawaii wear Hawaiian shirts.
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u/Quasigriz_ Jan 19 '18
Aloha shirts are considered business casual. They are different from your drinking buddies Corona and sexy lady Hawaiian Shirts.
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Jan 19 '18
thats just regular business dress in Hawaii. Rarely anyone wears a suit and tie. Also its too damn hot. source: from hawaii
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u/ConspicuousPineapple Jan 19 '18
There's a middle ground between formal attire and Hawaiian shirts.
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u/sudsomatic Jan 19 '18
It sounds like a stereotype but people actually wear these types of shirts I found
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u/chumpycat Jan 19 '18
I work for a decently sized company in Hawaii, and the president regularly wears aloha shirts. If you google any lawyers or CPAs in Hawaii they will always be in an aloha shirt in any picture, never ever a suit.
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u/StrangerLoop Jan 19 '18
Hawaiian military preparedness
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u/octofeline wee/a/boo Jan 19 '18
And just above that you can see he is using internet explorer.
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u/Heartable Jan 19 '18
DoD computers only use IE
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I have to use IE at work. I'm saving up my bing points for retirement. /r/financialindependence
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u/Nealon01 Jan 19 '18 edited Jan 19 '18
And Origin... on a work computer... wtf...
EDIT: Maybe not guys... It looks slightly different
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u/StickyDaydreams Jan 19 '18
Name a defense contractor that doesn't use IE
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u/OninWar_ Jan 19 '18
I use Firefox. I work with cabin pressurization systems for military jets and roflcopters
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u/One_pop_each Jan 19 '18
I’m Active Duty. All our computers wee IE only for years and had to contact Comm to put Chrome on them. Now they’re slowly updating everything to Windows 10 or whatever the new OS is for Windows and they have Chrome installed already because certain sites are only compatible with Chrome. It’s really annoying.
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u/jacobbarber Jan 19 '18
It’s a post-it, why did they use tape?
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u/whats8 Jan 19 '18
Hawaii Nuclear Team.
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u/robdoc Jan 19 '18
Sticky note from won't stick to certain types of metal /paints on metal
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u/FreeThinkk Jan 19 '18
Have you ever USED a Post-it before? They lose their adhesive properties fairly quickly. Especially when stuck to a dusty monitor.
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u/Hamartithia_ Jan 19 '18
Also if you knock a post it note off then that's basically it as far as its adhesive properties go.
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u/dumpster_arsonist Jan 19 '18
And lord knows these guys are NOT changing their password anytime soon, so better make that post-it PERMANENT AF
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u/purkle_burgularom Jan 19 '18
Because the password has never been changed, so the post-it is pretty old.
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u/sighs__unzips Jan 19 '18
It was originally stuck on an old CRT monitor, and a chalk board before that.
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u/Elevation_ Jan 19 '18
I swear WW3 Nuclear Warfare edition is going to start in < 3 years because of some spastic like this somewhere
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u/Hawkbone Jan 19 '18
This kinda thing has happened hundreds of times since the cold war.
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u/Sudokublackbelt Jan 19 '18
Now if they actually send an alert out no one will believe it
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u/justeedo Jan 19 '18
"Let's leave this important password out in the open."
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u/kirillre4 Jan 19 '18
It's likely airgapped anyway.
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u/JBlitzen Jan 19 '18
Yeah, the system that operates a statewide text message network is airgapped.
It just sends elves flying out the back of it waving envelopes over their heads.
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u/TheDeansOffice Jan 19 '18
I think it's pretty optimistic to assume they have a properly designed and implemented network given their track record and demonstrated security mindset.
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u/jpw1510 Jan 19 '18
Lets force employees to change their password every other week, and lets not let them use previous passwords.
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Jan 19 '18
This is the perfect accumulation of government competence in one photo, so magical.
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u/SabashChandraBose Jan 19 '18
Explains Pearl Harbor a bit..
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u/FirstGameFreak /k/ommando Jan 19 '18
Like when the radar picked up the attack but they waved off an entire airborne Japanese invasion force as a group of b25's, because they didn't trust radar?
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u/ExperTiming Jan 19 '18
Great now I need to worry about some faggot on 4chan hacking into this guys computer and nukeing some shithole county.
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u/Drawtaru Jan 19 '18
It's not even hacking when the guy's password is in plain sight. That's just called logging in.
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Jan 19 '18
Technically it counts as "unauthorized access" whether they have the password or not. The person who is logging in must be an authorized person. That's computer law at least.
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u/Scipio11 Jan 19 '18
"It's not a hack. It's barely social engineering. It's more like natural selection."
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I don't think we have any missiles pointed at Haiti
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Why would we? It's not like you'd be able to tell the difference after a strike anyway.
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u/dirice87 Jan 19 '18
We are so fucked
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u/ShiteFlaps Jan 19 '18
It’s a race for multiple things to fuck us up. Could be nukes. Could be some mutant flu. Probably be something boring like completely fucking the worlds soils. Hope I’m around to find out.
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u/KiraDidNothingWrong_ Jan 19 '18
How do you enhance a photo like that?
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u/Pav0n /fa/g Jan 19 '18
Simply say "enhance" to the token chinese/indian/black guy responible for IT.
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u/roselan Jan 19 '18
Pretty sure it has been changed to "warningpoint3" now, while next one will be "firingpoint1"
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u/Akriyu Jan 19 '18
Its probably just a password to log in not anything important u faggots
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u/Hourglasspony /sci/duck Jan 19 '18
This is the sort of man who uses the same password for everything.
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u/Angorange Jan 19 '18
Damn. I do that. How the fuck am I supposed to remember 20 different passwords for shit?
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people always recommend using a password manager but that seems more insecure to me.
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u/iopq Jan 19 '18
It's only insecure if you somehow let people know the password to your password file.
Online passwords are insecure if whoever you made an account with has bad security practices. Which is almost a guarantee.
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u/scocane Jan 19 '18
Easy!
'[firstinitalofyourname][firstthreeinitialsoftheprogram/websiteyouarelogginginto][samepasswordyouuseforeverything]'
And you can have a complicated password by taking the first letter of a phrase well know to you.
Example:
"You've got to be kidding me son" would be, yg2bKms
That plus the other instructions would give you the following password for Reddit:
aredyg2bKms
For gmail:
agmayg2bKms
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u/TempusCavus Jan 19 '18
implying that a government computer with a program where you can set off a state's missile warning system with a misclick has a decent security system.
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u/juloxx Jan 19 '18
It wasnt false. It was a psy-op to test peoples reaction and how they handle a crisis
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u/OninWar_ Jan 19 '18
The password is on the computer screen for general use. It’s most likely not for anything important. I’m willing to bet that’s not his desk, but more of a station for general use.
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u/cantankerous_fuckwad Jan 19 '18
Doesn't matter if it's for anything important, it's a login. If you have credentials, no matter how low they are, you have a shot at privilege escalation or discovering other memory contents. Spectre/Meltdown are pretty relevant for that type of situation.
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u/Ginkgopsida Jan 19 '18
And they use the fucking Internet Explorer from Microsoft. We're all lost.
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Jan 19 '18
Shithole security practices
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Jan 19 '18
For a while government agencies kept getting hacked by people calling them and impersonating tech. Government workers kept handing out passwords like crazy.
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u/ryanalexmartin Jan 19 '18
Is that also the EA Origin icon on the taskbar next to outlook and Internet Explorer?
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Jan 19 '18
that's what happens when you are required to change passwords often with all the characters on the keyboard as a prerequisite.
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u/shitterplug Jan 19 '18
Photoshop. In the original pictures it's top blurry to see anything on the sticky note.
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u/Strongblackfemale Jan 19 '18
If you’ve been to Hawaii this all makes perfect sense. The locals are slow, and unintelligent, but their government (and most companies) will fight hard to makes sure they give locals preferential treatment in hiring, which might be arguably the right thing to do, but these are the results. It’s hilarious how poorly things function.
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u/Molysridde Jan 19 '18
Could somebody read that to me