there’s been a lot of traffic about passwords recently. just how secure is yours etc. I use the same few passwords for everything, and it seems the US administration at the height of the cold war did the same. remember that “secret” code preventing unauthorised use of nukes, well it seems that they left the code as 00000000. Just like a brand new cobination lock on a recently bought briefcase. cute.
Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel. SAC remained far less concerned about unauthorized launches than about the potential of these safeguards to interfere with the implementation of wartime launch orders. And so the “secret unlock code” during the height of the nuclear crises of the Cold War remained constant at OOOOOOOO.
