The World's Most Dangerous Password

NonNullSet writes "Minutemen ICBMs were deployed in the early 1960s, and grew to over 1000 in number. They were allegedly protected from a "rogue launch" by an approach known as PAL (Permissive Action Link). The PAL required that the correct 8-digit launch code be entered by the missiliers before the missile would establish ignition. What if all the PAL codes had been set to '00000000,' and 'everyone' in the Strategic Air Command knew it? That is unbelievably what happened, as described in this article from the Center for Defense Information. Not exactly a great example for getting people to choose difficult passwords!"

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[shlaf]

"ghettos, " - bullshit. They should stop terror attacks agains Israeli civilians to enjoy freedom of movement between their cities. Each time the Israeli army lifts closure - bang! - next day we get school bus blown up or a crowd of shoppers in a mall. You get the idea. Tell that to your Arab brothers. They should stop killing Jews. That's a precondition. "building walls around them" - we're building walls around ourselves, you stupid moron! so that poor Arabs wouldn't send bombers to our own cities. "and sniping children when they step out of the house" bullshit and blatant lie. Arabs are killing Jewish children on purpose. Those Arab kids who get killed are victims of the tactics chosen by their own Islamic Jihad bandits who operate agains Israeli forces from within populated areas (which is violation of Geneva convention) And there is proven record of cases when they provoked killing their own civilians or killed them themselves to put the blame onto Israelis (and they invited CNN and Reuters journalists beforehand, too!) Go blow yourself, moron!

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[Doc Ruby]

The truth hurts you so badly, Anonymous pipsqueak Coward, that you can muster only that empty whine, when it slams you?