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wow! and thanks for these great info nugget and knowledgable videos! :) i'm a recent new subscriber and admire, support and share the clips i find would help dissipate good information and insights!
If you are right then the real question is why would anyone think this was a thing in their head, for fast response? to respond fast to a nuclear attack when a nuke takes hours to travel to its target? to save seconds in that respect? lmao i don't get it at all, whomever originally came up with this idea must have been crazy. Thank Dr. Blair for those articles lol. Voice of reason ftw.
and then the mad general starts typing codes to try to launch it, he'll try all numbers: _Ok, let's start... 0000000 _*_1_* _00000002..._ _00000003..._
That policy is FUCKED UP when it is just an impediment on individuals with non destructive devices. Placing that on weapons? Okay. On my phone and computer programs? Fuck those I.T. assholes who impose that. BTW, I know why they do it (to phone users, online account holders, etc.); it's a legal defensive effort. It's dickless and spineless copping out which covers their ass by demonstrating that they are making phones/ bank accounts/ etc. safer from invasion and crime. But they need to let the customers OPT OUT of that level of protection if they choose to. By not permitting this, they destroy productivity. Needlessly destroy it. They are (as Microsoft is THE most famous for) imposing their power to decide that they know what is best for the user, more than the user does. I.T. policy makers are really assholes, dickless assholes, in their intransigence on this matter.
But. don't worry. In case the code was forgotten or the key didn't fit, the personnel on duty in the silo could still launch the missile with a screw driver. All that had to be done was pull the console away from the wall and use the screwdriver to connect a couple leads and the sequence would begin. This convenient feature was apparently found out by one of the personnel on duty down in a hole who got bored and started just having a look at the blueprints and schematics of the consoles. After the "Hey, come look at this" moment with the other guy on duty and the phone calls started going up the chain, thousands of airmen nationwide were mobilzed to fix it. They started going around to every silo and welding the panel to the wall so it couldn't be pulled away anymore. Then work began on redesigning the circuit layouts inside and new consoles being installed in the silos.
_"Oooh ooh! This video title reminds me of Spaceballs! I'm going to click this video and make a reference to that!"_ *[scrolls down to comment section]* _"... FML!"_ lmao
Actually, the code for Druidia's shield was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. But I understand why you got confused, since the book of armaments states in chapter 2, verses 9-21: "Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. *Five is right out!*" But that concerns Handgrenades, not ICBMs
Extremely highly misleading. This wasn't the only code required to launch a missile. Codes existed to activate the warhead, other codes allowed the fueling of the missile, and other codes enabled opening the door. Most of the article is 100% BS. The code referred to was an extra layer of codes applicable only to missiles outside the US, so for missiles in the US having the code as a string of zeros was fine. Other codes were needed to do anything with the missile.
Good to know. But were these other codes you mention available only from the President? If not, then despite military assurances that a Dr. Strangelove conspiracy could not happen, in fact it could.
I mean, if you think about it, if someone hacks in and sees the password is eight zeroes, they'll think they made a mistake because "what idiot would make that the passcode?"
A wing has 50 ICBM. Each flight has 10 ICBM. 5 flights to a wing. Same back than as today. Another flight and/or wing command also had to turn there keys at the same time to lunch missiles. They were all connected by underground pressurized cables.
Edit: I am tired I think... I missed AlexCobalt's reply... Sorry... Password should be "incorrect"... So when you enter the wrong password it says "password is incorrect". (I stole that joke)
Soviet Hacker: "I chave got my hands on US nuclearr launch kodes" Soviet President: "Zat is greatt vork do tell me!" Soviet Hacker: "It is 00000000" Soviet President: "You think this is joke? You are exiled!"
I was on a USAF missile launch crew in Germany (Mace missile) from 1962-1965 and was on duty when the PAL systems were installed. They did not prevent a launch but prevented the arming sequence from proceeding which was an automatic sequence initiated by the guidance system as the missile neared its target. It took minimum of two people to launch the missiles. Although the sealed launch codes were in the blockhouse, the PAL codes were transmitted electronically only after the launch codes had been sent. I know for a fact that our PAL codes were initially not all zeros because I peeked during installation! They were also changed randomly by outside technicians.
Additional information: the launch codes were merely authorization codes to verify the legitimacy of the launch order. Prior to the PAL system, a crew could launch a maximum of 4 missiles without authorization. In the unlikely event of a rogue crew starting a launch, the missiles could be disabled from outside (AR15s, etc.). In the event of a launch order, only designated missiles would be launched, as they had different tactical missions, i.e. airbase, railyard or other infrastructure locations. It was unspoken but widely understood that our stateside families were probably already dead. Grim stuff for people just out of our teens.
I agree my brother worked on the Titan 2 system in the 1970s out of Davis-Monthan in Tucson, AZ I asked him about this he says this video is bullshit the codes were not zeros he said it's all classified but he assured me that it was not zeros.
@@Mike-01234 The information and procedures I referred to were applicable to the tactical missiles (MGM-13A) I was assigned to. These were powered by a jet engines, onboard radar guidance, subsonic, shot off a zero length launcher by a booster bottle. Only two people were needed to fire the missile. One was the launch officer the other was the Tech2 who had to turn a handle on the LEU between two RPM limits. They were separated by about 20 feet. After early 1962, no firearms were permitted in the blockhouse.
mezsh What? Oh we are preparing to fight or planning the fight. Never actually fight here though. Yes, preparing and planning is what we do best! (I wonder if Monty Python could have got a sketch out of this somewhere.)
The best story was on the Sandia labs videos about security. In the US the civilians control the weapon, the military control the delivery package. So the first iterations of security involved the warhead having a multiple pined interface to the missile. The warhead had no capability to be detonated without the missile /bomb part. Further, you could not denotate the war head without the weapon system and the correct code in the panel (I'm simplifying this). One day someone was looking at the design and realised that if you placed a screwdriver between the correct pins on the warhead interface you could close the circuit and detonate the weapon! A rapid change was kicked off at that point.
Add this to other problems, like the many times the US mistakenly thought the Soviets were launching or the Soviets mistakenly thought the US was launching, the depth charges used against a Soviet sub during the Cuban Missile crisis, etc., and it's something very close to a bona fide miracle that WW3 never happened.
yup and that sub had nuclear torpedoes on it aswell. almost got split in two when they first tried to ram it. then a bear almost started a nuclear war when it climbed a fence at one of our bases. crazy days
spankeyfish yes but we needed to be able to type the code in fast, and rather than hit a bunch if different numbers in a long combination it is much easier to rapidly hit only one number, and besides it's simple but it still worked out. even if you knew the code only had 0's you still had to figure out how many 0's and it's genius in the fact that it's so stupid no one would ever guess it unless they were directly told or it was leaked (which it never had until it had already been changed)
most of our security flaws are there because people are lazy. For example: People are too lazy to remember passwords or write them down. So they have the same password for each account.
Once logged into my email provider's account, so I had access to every single email account that the provider was hosting (about 100 local organizations, government offices, and businesses). The username was admin. The password was admin.
If you don't write your passwords down you're probably either a teenager who still has a bunch of memory space left for passwords, or you only have 10 or 20 passwords that you use regularly. Imagine remembering 200+ passwords, some of which you will only use every 2-5 years, all of which cannot be tied to any phrase / date / reference to your real-world life, all of which you must change every 5 years just in case their server was hacked. Good luck.
The sole purpose of passwords is that only you know them. KNOW them. Not have them written down somewhere where other people can read them. Otherwise you might as well use 1234 everywhere because if there's even a slight chance other people could find out your passwords, they're useless. You don't have to invent hundreds of them either, just variations of one.
The Minute Man Missiles (and many other such weapons) could not be launched without setting codes and switches from a location outside the silo. So it did not matter what the 'local' code was because the "launch" required the 2 men each with a key in the silo AND the activation of switches outside the silo. The system was built under the assumption it would be 'hacked' or 'tricked'.
***** due to the fact that ive not been taken away to some secret government facility , odds are thats not the password or the NSA just isnt listening enough . well you can always brute force it ...yah know 01111111 00111111 00011111 00001111 00000111 00000011 00000001 10000000 11000000 11100000 11110000 11111000 11111100 11111110 11111111 10100000 10010000 10001000 10000100 10000010 10000001 ECT. probably take a long time and a lot of tries. like a few billon years about ....
Learning these kinds of things and playing the Fallout series makes me think of civilization in the northern hemisphere being wiped out, so Australia, South Africa, and Brazil becoming the top world leaders.
Nathan Stevenson I think it was ShoddyCast that crunched the numbers on minimal number of nukes needed to destroy a country, using the US as a basis. You don't have to carpet-bomb the country with nukes, only have to hit sime 5% of the landmass to purge nearly 100% of the population. So I don't think nuclear winter would be the utmost answer, and even if there would be, wouldn't the more developed nations that sit closer to the equator have a shot at not being annihilated?
+CheffBryan You are assuming people to be reasonable. Both Russia and the US have enough nukes to plant multiple hits on every major (>1million) city and target of strategic value. And in the case of nuclear exchange, there is no reason not to launch them all. If you're gonna die, might as well make sure you take your enemy with you, fuck the consequences. Also, the numbers on how many nukes needed to cause global nuclear winter seems to be highly disputed, I've seen numbers from as little as 10 (if megaton strikes against major cities, combined with some assumptions about stratospheric condensates) to several thousand. And then there is the issue of salted bombs, which may potentially have been constructed (unlikely but not impossible). What would happen in the case of a large nuclear exchange is uncertain to some degree, so don't assume the Southern Hemisphere to be safe. And don't put beyond the nuclear powers to aim a couple of MIRVs at Australia and South America.
hamstsorkxxor K. It's all speculation as is, so making some shit up about the south being mostly unmolested by the north still sounds more viable than what videogames have been trying to predict. Hell, the whole Star Wars series is much more wildly inaccurate, but people couldn't care less.
Many years back, IBM introduced a competing operating system to try and kick MS Windows down a peg. This was Called OS2 Warp, in it's day it was quick, very usable, could do DOS with no problems and was nearly Windows 95 when MS was still bragging about Windows 3.11. Well when it flopped because of MS's powers, the OS nearly died but did manage to limp alone in some venues, and up to a few years ago, you could still purchase it under a new name, which slips my mind for the moment. You needed a 9 digit code to install the full version, I still have it on CD, the code for my disk was 8 zeros and a 1. Wonder where they came up with that? (I believe this is a maintenance code for in-house operations.
actually, they set all of the valve locks to 00000000, the combinations were different but this meant a brute force approach would take far too long to ever risk actually launching a missile unintentionally.
I always pictured two general looking guys with big gold key necklaces that turn them at the same time then hit a big ass red button that says "Reset world" on it
Edit: Since I am still getting some comments where people want to quote other articles this video is based on, that keep repeating the same mistakes....Blair has come out and said they made a lot of mistakes. tomnichols.net/blog/2013/12/20/update-were-u-s-nuclear-codes-set-to-zero-bruce-blair-responds/ Blair NEVER said the letters he wrote in 1977, were the reason the all 0 code was changed. ONE, because it wasn't changed, that process was removed all together, TWO because why would Congrss change something they don't have the direct power to change, based on the word of a low ranking officer who had recently resigned his commission in the Air Force? Blair does say in the 2004 report that started all of this, Blair says, "After leaving the Air Force in 1974, I pressed the service, initially by letters addressed to it and then through congressional intermediaries, to consider a range of terrorist scenarios in which these locks could serve as crucial barriers against the unauthorized seizure of launch control over Minuteman missiles. In 1977, I co-authored (with Garry Brewer) an article (click here to view) entitled “The Terrorist Threat to World Nuclear Programs” in which I laid out the case for taking this threat more seriously and suggesting remedial measures including, first and foremost, activating those McNamara locks that apparently he and presidents presumed had already been activated." But also says in the above article I linked, "McNamara thought he had prevailed, but learned from me in 2004 (the date of my article that you wrongly dated 1994) that SAC had set the combination codes to eight zeros and got away with it until 1977" Here is the link to the orginal 2004 paper Blair wrote. www.globalzero.org/files/bb_keeping_presidents_in_the_nuclear_dark_episode_1_the_case_of_the_missing_permissive_action_links_02.11.2004.pdf Orginal Post: This video is FULL of wrong info. Frist off, the article came out in 2004, the additional all 0 launch code was added in 1962 and stopped in the early 80s (sorry 1977 as a result of a total change to the process). So NO they didn't only change it at the time of the article, in fact in the orginal article he states it had long since been changed and is for more complex. Second, the all 0 "launch code" was added at the order of the White House as an added step to the already secure launch system and at the objection of SAC and the Joint Chiefs. So SAC Command, set it as all 0s to comply with the order but not add the needless extra step. The launch authorization code was NEVER all 0s and could only be sent down by the President's authorization of release of nuclear weapons, down the chain and was always verified before being entered. Then the 2 launch officers who are guarded by a TON of security and being several stories underground had to enter the codes and turn the dual launch keys. These officers always had Top Secret security clearance which required a TON of background checks. ALSO all individuals related to the launch from the launch officer to the top side Security had to be on what is called a PRP, or Personal Reliably Program. Where EVERY aspect of their life was watched and checked. If you so much as needed to take a Tylenol, you could be pulled off for possible impairment. If you ran up a large debt with a credit card, you would be removed..ect. Bottom line...This all 0 code, was a needless added step, to an already VERY secure system and FAR from the only thing required to launch a nuke.
very, very true. you wouldnt want to only have 1 layer of defence on something as important as a weapon of mass destruction, you should have 6 layers of defence, as it would be very hard to crack into
Tomo Rainns exactly! I didn't want to go into detail as to the full current or past security measures, but you are on target. There is no way someone can make into a silo and launch an armed weapon. Even if the whole crew wanted to, they can't without the armming codes. They may be able to manually launch a missile, but it wouldn't be armed to detonate the nuke. ...and before anyone asks...Yes I'm retired Air Force and was an expert in Physical Security and Force Protection.
Don-Fugn Worry-AboutIt First, which article? The ones they list screwed up a lot, because even the orginal "report" was full of BS by someone trying to get attention and make it like he was releasing a secret that wasn't alreay known, maybe not well know, but far from some revelation. I did this for a living too, and this step in security that he attempted to make out as a huge risk, because it was all 0s, was nothing more that an added unnecessary extra step ordered by the White House it was unneeded and only got it the way of an already VERY secure system.
This was all confirmed by Daniel Ellsberg in his book "Doomsday Machine." While an employee of the Rand Corporation he was tasked by the Commander in Chief Pacific Forces (CincPac) to study nuclear security in the Pacific theater. His observations are first hand and frankly, make me wonder how we ever survived the era. Also, back then, nuclear weapons were carried by fighter bombers which could drop individually. Ellsberg also describes how nuclear target planning back then did not distinguish between the U.S.S.R. and China. Commies were Commies and a launch would have been against both countries as targeting data did not take nationality into consideration.
I’m unwell today and spending it in bed. I’ve just been catching up on my ‘Simon Whistler ‘ 5 hours so far. Thank you Simon, your videos are always so interesting.
NateSarah Goers intercontinental ballistic missiles aren't a joint operation. It's strictly Air Force. So for him to call it armed forces would also be wrong.
Well, and you all really believe that a Nuclear Counter-Attack is dependent on an eight-digit Code, the simultaneous turning of two Keys and two Soldiers? Interesting.
I really love your videos, I certainly learn quite a bit whilst watching them. :) Even though every time I hear your name, I always think about the famous American painting "Whistler's Mother." lol
You missed out a few facts: those minuteman silos had two codes in place. First code was received from the command and used in the normal procedure for lunch, the second one was deemed secret (fixed code for every silo) - only to be used in case of emergency. As the name indicates lunch procedure was to be carried out within a minute. For the 70;s technology way the dials were designed made it very time-consuming to put the code in place. It was, in fact, an eight digit hexadecimal code (imagine something of format like modern MAC addresses) that had to be set by gauge rotation. After many drills people on top decided it took way too much time to put the emergency codes in (or as a matter of fact maybe the primary ones as well - that I don't know) so they were all reset to 00 00 00 ... etc. - Upon opening the emergency code envelope (in real life scenario) operating team would realize the code is already valid (as all dials were set to zero by default) thus requiring only no effort on that part. The idea (or the afterward excuse) was that "no one would ever think the code would be all zeros" and it wasn't a common knowledge among the soldiers as well.
It's great that everyone's an expert on nuclear weapons! So you personally must have performed these duties to have such vast knowledge? Are you sure that these are the correct procedures for "LUNCH"?
@@tubescorpion Unfortunately this uplink person is full of crap too. I can’t speak to Titan, ILCS, or Mod, but I can speak to MMII/CDB having spent 4 years on missile combat crew duty. The enable codes were transmitted in a EAM from National Command Authortity. Day to day the thumbwheel switches in all LCCs were set to P7s which had no significance other than a common starting place for all LCCs. SAC could have just as easily told us to set them to some other random setting day to day. About the only thing this jackass who did this video got right was the SAC emblem.
Enemies wouldn't guess them, they would run a brute-force attack back then on the digital sequence...the first number it would try would be 00000000. That wasn't an actual launch sequence though. It was a place holder so the actual code was not left primed in the pad.
Actually the chances of anyone guessing 00000000 is the same as any other combination. 38928374 for example. Still 10^8=100,000,000. Trivial for a modern computer with the right interface. And if you take a random walk with the right feedback you'll hit the right code statistically within 50,000,000 tries.
Daniel Ellsberg explains (in a *bit* more detail) what this guy is talking about in "The Doomsday Machine." Eric Schlosser also discusses it (again, in a *bit* more detail) in "Command and Control." The facts do not square with this explanation, but if I recall correctly they are just as shocking. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#The_Doomsday_Machine en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control:_Nuclear_Weapons,_the_Damascus_Accident,_and_the_Illusion_of_Safety
'General Power' once had the ability to launch nukes and start a world ending war? Is this fucking captain planet? That is such an obvious villain name.
As long as nobody knows that, it's still as secure as any other 8 digit number. They also have three factor authentication, requiring two physical keys along with the code.
There is no reason to call for authorization, the alarm comes in and a teletype message. The missile control room personnel take the message and first they check it against the codes in the lock box. Then they match it in a binder to a code, and then swap as there are two binders. Once confirmed, they get keys from lockbox and insert, turn and hold. It takes two people to launch the missiles as the control boxes are out of arms reach to make it impossible for one person because the keys have to be turned simultaneously and held for 3 seconds. There are videos about this all over the place. Plenty of old training videos that the military made because the threat was very real in the 50's, 60's, 70's into the mid to late 80's.
Wow. LGM-30 Minuteman missile of 300-500 kiloton yield multiplied by about 1000 silos in the US is about 300,000 - 500,000 kiloton nuclear yield... all with a launch code of 00000000. Brilliant.
Wow... I have no idea how you are always able to get the best information possible for your videos ..but somehow you do... How many people/reporters out there are able to report on a story and are able to get nuclear weapons launch codes...but what's truly amazing....is that you have no fear when you made that code public .. Could you please explain how/ why you have no fear to publish that information... Thanks in advance for your reply
Very well, the Password is....: One..., (..1, 1!), Two..., (2, 2!), Three..., (3, 3!), Four..., (4,4!), ...............Five..., (5, 5!) -So the combination is... 1234.....5? (nods) - That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life!!! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!!! ---What's the password -1,2,3,4,5,! ----That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!
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wow! and thanks for these great info nugget and knowledgable videos! :)
i'm a recent new subscriber and admire, support and share the clips i find would help dissipate good information and insights!
If you are right then the real question is why would anyone think this was a thing in their head, for fast response? to respond fast to a nuclear attack when a nuke takes hours to travel to its target? to save seconds in that respect? lmao i don't get it at all, whomever originally came up with this idea must have been crazy. Thank Dr. Blair for those articles lol. Voice of reason ftw.
Listening to this guy’s English is like having a rat naw on your ear
“Idear”?!? Wtf
It’s IDEA NOT IDEAR THERE IS NO R AND IF THERE IS ITS SILENT. LMAOR. HAHAHAHAB
the modern system allows for the newer upgraded alphanumeric nuclear launch code of "admin123"
Dave Smith Lmao
cute but never gonna happen..even if you know the codes you cant launch..how silly
Nope because you have to remember the secondary code which is obviously QWERTY12345
***** Ahh yes that old one line. Very sneaky.
"We need to update our security systems!" **types in PaSsWoRd321**
And I started my bruteforce approach from 00000001... fuck!
Dario Zanze lol
Fail
Jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja
A bruteforce on a numerical 9 digit code would take about a day on my PC... Yes I got the joke.
who doesnt know what a bruteforce is lol
Makes me wonder how many Pentagon computers have "password" as a their password.
Mark Brinkman no there password is "invalid" that way it tells you "your password is invalid"
Need I remind you the head of the NSA's email password was literally p@ssw0rd
no the password is Guest
simongosimon or left blank
You're all wrong. The password is "pentagon"
and then the mad general starts typing codes to try to launch it, he'll try all numbers:
_Ok, let's start... 0000000 _*_1_*
_00000002..._
_00000003..._
Nelson Baietti you're now locked out please contact your administrator to reset.
hahahaha😄
Imagine he finally discovers it and the war already ended.
@Entity51 Suuuuure they do. I mean you'd be crazy to start with 2 or something, who does that?
@Entity51 arrays are indexed at 0 in most programming languages.
00000000?
Sounds like the code to someones luggage
That’s amazing I have the same combination on my luggage!
No no that’s 12345 president scroob announced this.
@@kesslerfox9858 8 digit system...
so my ps2 movie password could have destrpyed the world
Austin Robinson yep. Bye Bye Earth...
account name pls?
mintbreathingdragon it was a parentsl protection thing
Austin Robinson ok
Depends on what your PS2 is hooked up to.
Please include at least one lower case letter, one upper case letter, and one symbol in your nuclear launch codes.
Mark Contini
Your password cannot be a previously used password. 😉
Oh man, that reminds me of when I switched ISP recently and now I can't use my old Wifi password because of this bullshit.
That policy is FUCKED UP when it is just an impediment on individuals with non destructive devices. Placing that on weapons? Okay. On my phone and computer programs? Fuck those I.T. assholes who impose that.
BTW, I know why they do it (to phone users, online account holders, etc.); it's a legal defensive effort. It's dickless and spineless copping out which covers their ass by demonstrating that they are making phones/ bank accounts/ etc. safer from invasion and crime. But they need to let the customers OPT OUT of that level of protection if they choose to. By not permitting this, they destroy productivity. Needlessly destroy it. They are (as Microsoft is THE most famous for) imposing their power to decide that they know what is best for the user, more than the user does. I.T. policy makers are really assholes, dickless assholes, in their intransigence on this matter.
@@Bill_Woo yeah I honestly hate that bullshit too man.
"12345? That's incredible! I have the same combination on my luggage!"
Tedmeister space balls!
a classic
I bet she gives GREAT helmet.
+Glenn Quagmire sir, suck has turned to blow
Mega-Maid lol!!
But. don't worry. In case the code was forgotten or the key didn't fit, the personnel on duty in the silo could still launch the missile with a screw driver. All that had to be done was pull the console away from the wall and use the screwdriver to connect a couple leads and the sequence would begin. This convenient feature was apparently found out by one of the personnel on duty down in a hole who got bored and started just having a look at the blueprints and schematics of the consoles. After the "Hey, come look at this" moment with the other guy on duty and the phone calls started going up the chain, thousands of airmen nationwide were mobilzed to fix it. They started going around to every silo and welding the panel to the wall so it couldn't be pulled away anymore. Then work began on redesigning the circuit layouts inside and new consoles being installed in the silos.
That sounds about right!
"Yo bro watch this I can guess the launch codes"
"No way bro no way"
"Hold my beer"
* 00000000 *
*H A C K E R M A N*
cue alarms and lights as silo doors start to open, followed by the roar of the missile leaving for its target :P
We're all gonna die! =D
*Smashes WMD launch button* Hackerman ain't gonna get me today.
Its not a completely digital system... It actually has spools of magnetic tapes...
Why'd you aim that nuke at my trailor home? I aint done nothin!
In fallout 3 there is an Easter egg at one of the military bases where you need o find the launch code and it ends up being 00000000 to represent this
The only thing is when you input the codes, the missiles fail to launch.
so basically the first code I'd guess when I'm trying to unlock my friends phone
dc2008242 yeah pretty much
That's like having the code "1234" on your luggage! Lol
Fireship1 Apart from the code being different and one of them being able to destroy the world, yes, exactly the same!
Nevets It's a Spaceballs joke, genius.
_"Oooh ooh! This video title reminds me of Spaceballs! I'm going to click this video and make a reference to that!"_
*[scrolls down to comment section]*
_"... FML!"_ lmao
That was actually the code for the "Football" during a few administrations.
Actually, the code for Druidia's shield was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
But I understand why you got confused, since the book of armaments states in chapter 2, verses 9-21:
"Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. *Five is right out!*"
But that concerns Handgrenades, not ICBMs
Extremely highly misleading. This wasn't the only code required to launch a missile. Codes existed to activate the warhead, other codes allowed the fueling of the missile, and other codes enabled opening the door.
Most of the article is 100% BS. The code referred to was an extra layer of codes applicable only to missiles outside the US, so for missiles in the US having the code as a string of zeros was fine. Other codes were needed to do anything with the missile.
I agree with you.
"Today I found Out" has since bullshit episodes. Partial truth works for them 🤣
Good to know. But were these other codes you mention available only from the President? If not, then despite military assurances that a Dr. Strangelove conspiracy could not happen, in fact it could.
Click bait
It has the power to send a false alarm to generals.
PRESIDENT SKROOB: "That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage."
1,2,3,4,5, lol loved that movie
The new code is 11111111
ThatOnePotatoWizard The CIA watches you
FBI: "Don't fucking move"
If that don't work try Passw0rd
12345678
Password$123. You need upper and lower case characters, numbers, and special characters.
I know a guy who worked in the KGB and he was shocked by this video. He always thought the code was 12345678
Why let that stop you from a good crusade
What, so the russians could have access to our luggage while they're at it?
I mean, if you think about it, if someone hacks in and sees the password is eight zeroes, they'll think they made a mistake because "what idiot would make that the passcode?"
Keys for missile launch: therefore hotwire and car-jack it.
Codes for arming nuke: don't want to fire a dud. again, hotwire that too.
Grant Cambron Excuse, I need to change my code to my hidden porn stash....
but still would be more sense to actually make a code right
In the movie War Games, the launch code was CPE-1704-TKS.
the best way to win is to not play at all
MR. POTATO HEAD
Turn your key sir
@shelbythomas Back doors are not secret, i get it, i get it...
A wing has 50 ICBM. Each flight has 10 ICBM. 5 flights to a wing. Same back than as today. Another flight and/or wing command also had to turn there keys at the same time to lunch missiles. They were all connected by underground pressurized cables.
So many hollywood movies just lost their main plot.
Obviously you have never seen, "Dr. Strangelove: or how I stopped worrying, and learned to love the bomb"
niza310 i thought i am the only one having sex with nukes
SuperJayXD in every Hollywood pre-WW3 the launch codes are always a bunch of random numbers, when in reality it is 00000000
Dam hollywood movies, always unrealistic.
niza310 there is a certain Purity of Essence to the real code...
The new username is "Pssword"
The new password is "Username"
Nobody will ever guess that.
piss ward
Missing No no, the password will be **********
that's like setting your password to 'incorrect' so anytime you mess up or forget, the computer will tell you your password.
Brilliant
Edit: I am tired I think... I missed AlexCobalt's reply... Sorry...
Password should be "incorrect"... So when you enter the wrong password it says "password is incorrect".
(I stole that joke)
Soviet Hacker: "I chave got my hands on US nuclearr launch kodes"
Soviet President: "Zat is greatt vork do tell me!"
Soviet Hacker: "It is 00000000"
Soviet President: "You think this is joke? You are exiled!"
T0BBi94 More like German hacker.
+Furry a slight irony .. Haha
T0BBi94 I ensure you it would have been taken very seriously.
Thanks Captain Obvious
"Soviet"
"Zat"
Get out
I was on a USAF missile launch crew in Germany (Mace missile) from 1962-1965 and was on duty when the PAL systems were
installed. They did not prevent a launch but prevented the arming sequence from proceeding which was an automatic sequence
initiated by the guidance system as the missile neared its target. It took minimum of two people to launch the missiles. Although the sealed launch codes were in the blockhouse, the PAL codes were transmitted electronically only after the launch codes had been sent. I know for a fact that our PAL codes were initially not all zeros because I peeked during installation! They were also changed randomly by outside technicians.
You ought to write a book about your times there. That would make for some interesting reading. Let me know if you ever do that.
I knew this video was full of shit. I didn't believe anything at all except the pal systems being installed of course
Additional information: the launch codes were merely authorization codes to verify the legitimacy of the launch order. Prior to the PAL system, a crew could launch a
maximum of 4 missiles without authorization. In the unlikely event of a rogue crew starting a launch, the missiles could be disabled from outside (AR15s, etc.). In the event of a launch order, only designated missiles would be launched, as they had different tactical missions, i.e. airbase, railyard or other infrastructure locations. It was unspoken but widely understood that our stateside families were probably already dead. Grim stuff for people just out of our teens.
I agree my brother worked on the Titan 2 system in the 1970s out of Davis-Monthan in Tucson, AZ I asked him about this he says this video is bullshit the codes were not zeros he said it's all classified but he assured me that it was not zeros.
@@Mike-01234 The information and procedures I referred to were applicable to the tactical missiles (MGM-13A) I was assigned to. These were powered by a jet engines, onboard radar guidance, subsonic, shot off a zero length launcher by a booster bottle. Only two people were needed to fire the missile. One was the launch officer the other was the Tech2 who had to turn a handle on the LEU between two RPM limits. They were separated by about 20 feet. After early 1962, no firearms were permitted in the blockhouse.
*takes off the "0" key" Mwahahahaaaa!
It was a dial, not a keyboard entry.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! this is the War Room!".
mezsh What?
Oh we are preparing to fight or planning the fight. Never actually fight here though. Yes, preparing and planning is what we do best!
(I wonder if Monty Python could have got a sketch out of this somewhere.)
mezsh I think they changed the password to 000000. They switched the first zero with the last zero! It's genius!
it was actually ⬆⬆⬇⬇⬅➡⬅➡ B A start
No.. that is the code for extra warheads
Ha, that code in so ingrained in my head it's not even funny
Public Enemy #1 wasnt that the code for the buzzard
rick lode Konami Code
Randomecorner you have unlocked super haduken
The best story was on the Sandia labs videos about security. In the US the civilians control the weapon, the military control the delivery package. So the first iterations of security involved the warhead having a multiple pined interface to the missile. The warhead had no capability to be detonated without the missile /bomb part. Further, you could not denotate the war head without the weapon system and the correct code in the panel (I'm simplifying this).
One day someone was looking at the design and realised that if you placed a screwdriver between the correct pins on the warhead interface you could close the circuit and detonate the weapon! A rapid change was kicked off at that point.
"Give us the codes" "I'll tell you nothing!" "We got 'em boys"
This is brilliant
Add this to other problems, like the many times the US mistakenly thought the Soviets were launching or the Soviets mistakenly thought the US was launching, the depth charges used against a Soviet sub during the Cuban Missile crisis, etc., and it's something very close to a bona fide miracle that WW3 never happened.
yup and that sub had nuclear torpedoes on it aswell. almost got split in two when they first tried to ram it. then a bear almost started a nuclear war when it climbed a fence at one of our bases. crazy days
"That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage."
May the schwartz be with you.
spankeyfish yes but we needed to be able to type the code in fast, and rather than hit a bunch if different numbers in a long combination it is much easier to rapidly hit only one number, and besides it's simple but it still worked out. even if you knew the code only had 0's you still had to figure out how many 0's and it's genius in the fact that it's so stupid no one would ever guess it unless they were directly told or it was leaked (which it never had until it had already been changed)
Woosh!
"That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage."
How many assholes do we have on this ship anyway? I'm surrounded by assholes. Keep firing assholes!
most of our security flaws are there because people are lazy.
For example: People are too lazy to remember passwords or write them down. So they have the same password for each account.
I's smart, I use LastPass and its built-in random password generator. Not an ad, just saying :P
Once logged into my email provider's account, so I had access to every single email account that the provider was hosting (about 100 local organizations, government offices, and businesses). The username was admin. The password was admin.
Pikapetey Animations You should never write a password down, idiot.
If you don't write your passwords down you're probably either a teenager who still has a bunch of memory space left for passwords, or you only have 10 or 20 passwords that you use regularly. Imagine remembering 200+ passwords, some of which you will only use every 2-5 years, all of which cannot be tied to any phrase / date / reference to your real-world life, all of which you must change every 5 years just in case their server was hacked. Good luck.
The sole purpose of passwords is that only you know them. KNOW them. Not have them written down somewhere where other people can read them. Otherwise you might as well use 1234 everywhere because if there's even a slight chance other people could find out your passwords, they're useless. You don't have to invent hundreds of them either, just variations of one.
hey, as long as no one messes with the purity of our precious bodily fluids we're good
Got it! Love it!!
The Minute Man Missiles (and many other such weapons) could not be launched without setting codes and switches from a location outside the silo. So it did not matter what the 'local' code was because the "launch" required the 2 men each with a key in the silo AND the activation of switches outside the silo. The system was built under the assumption it would be 'hacked' or 'tricked'.
The new code is now 22222222
LOL
How would you know
The Macaroni Chronicles Obama and I are homeboys. We roll blunts together.
aky19832001 Wow dang you're really lucky
aky19832001 yo I heard Obama has that good shit... does he
00000000?
That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
Now I want to watch Spaceballs.
Ludicrous Speed GO!!!
That's a lot of cifres on a mere combi-lock like that.
That is amazing, I have the same code on my luggage.
Input the code, and change the passcode on my luggage!
You have an eight-digit combination on your luggage?
😂 great movie!
"That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"
That's the thing, everyone would always think, well it must be something super unbreakable. Meanwhile the US takes the simplest easiest thing.
Wow Simon discovered this 'old' video of yours - really awesome!
All of a sudden I dont feel bad for having my password for everything as "secret".
why are you telling people this?
very good now i can log into all of your accounts
Why log in? Just hack into them. You already know how to do that.
TJ Cofer Because he has nothing to lose?
You are welcome!
funny this come on to my recommendation the day before presidential election.
same
Owen Mushet funny how it was in mine the day after....
In their defense, the enemy would probably never expect something so simple.
This video is bs. Many comments have pointed out that these are permissive codes, and are COMPLETELY different from launch codes.
This guy is an idiot
So... Just saw this video, after seeing yesterday's one. My man, life has been good to you (as with all of us)
One of the best reasons for a free legitimate news press ever given.
its probablably 00000001 now ... if im correct , pls dont hurt me .
arron mullings *squeezes your thumb just a smidge too hard*
arron mullings at a higher level, most probably yes.
***** due to the fact that ive not been taken away to some secret government facility , odds are thats not the password or the NSA just isnt listening enough . well you can always brute force it ...yah know 01111111
00111111
00011111
00001111
00000111
00000011
00000001
10000000
11000000
11100000
11110000
11111000
11111100
11111110
11111111
10100000
10010000
10001000
10000100
10000010
10000001
ECT.
probably take a long time and a lot of tries.
like a few billon years about ....
Well..after the first fail it insta locks up and disarm the bomb..so sorry to say...you cant do it. :3
vex zarkov i dont care , i have no interest in nuclear launch codes im just a guy who like cheese pizza
now it's 11111111
SgtFury7 Actually they're going high tech nowadays with complex codes like 12345678.
lol
mmm not sure if this is a subject to joke about - triggering global nuclear war...mmm.
GB3770 well you must be fun at parties. Douche.
GB3770 Well, that's one of the things the internet does. It takes a situation and makes a joke out of it.
Learning these kinds of things and playing the Fallout series makes me think of civilization in the northern hemisphere being wiped out, so Australia, South Africa, and Brazil becoming the top world leaders.
CheffBryan Nuclear war creates nuclear winter and we all freeze to death the same my friend
Nathan Stevenson I think it was ShoddyCast that crunched the numbers on minimal number of nukes needed to destroy a country, using the US as a basis. You don't have to carpet-bomb the country with nukes, only have to hit sime 5% of the landmass to purge nearly 100% of the population. So I don't think nuclear winter would be the utmost answer, and even if there would be, wouldn't the more developed nations that sit closer to the equator have a shot at not being annihilated?
+CheffBryan
You are assuming people to be reasonable. Both Russia and the US have enough nukes to plant multiple hits on every major (>1million) city and target of strategic value. And in the case of nuclear exchange, there is no reason not to launch them all. If you're gonna die, might as well make sure you take your enemy with you, fuck the consequences.
Also, the numbers on how many nukes needed to cause global nuclear winter seems to be highly disputed, I've seen numbers from as little as 10 (if megaton strikes against major cities, combined with some assumptions about stratospheric condensates) to several thousand. And then there is the issue of salted bombs, which may potentially have been constructed (unlikely but not impossible).
What would happen in the case of a large nuclear exchange is uncertain to some degree, so don't assume the Southern Hemisphere to be safe. And don't put beyond the nuclear powers to aim a couple of MIRVs at Australia and South America.
hamstsorkxxor K.
It's all speculation as is, so making some shit up about the south being mostly unmolested by the north still sounds more viable than what videogames have been trying to predict. Hell, the whole Star Wars series is much more wildly inaccurate, but people couldn't care less.
If there really was a nuclear war on the largest scale, the lucky ones would be those who died instantly.
Many years back, IBM introduced a competing operating system to try and kick MS Windows down a peg. This was Called OS2 Warp, in it's day it was quick, very usable, could do DOS with no problems and was nearly Windows 95 when MS was still bragging about Windows 3.11. Well when it flopped because of MS's powers, the OS nearly died but did manage to limp alone in some venues, and up to a few years ago, you could still purchase it under a new name, which slips my mind for the moment. You needed a 9 digit code to install the full version, I still have it on CD, the code for my disk was 8 zeros and a 1. Wonder where they came up with that? (I believe this is a maintenance code for in-house operations.
I remember that and ran it! Wow..memory jogger.
You realize this video is complete horseshit right? The only correct info is the PAL system being installed
Why do I suddenly want to watch Dr Strangelove?
You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
I've actually been in a minuteman launch center before it was awesome.
good to know my pc password and the nuclear launch codes were the same..
tbh, your pc password shouldn't matter. If someone has access to your pc, they have already stolen it.
DankMemes Still, make it harder for the bastard
Matthew Byrne I would think it would be better for the thief to be able to get into your pc, so they don't just immediately factory reset it
I thought this was related to fallout....anyway theres some settlements I need to go and help
ok go.
LuckyLegionN7 XD
Preston Garvey Thx Preston
lol ur name is legit Preston Garvey xD im crying
this is the best thing ive ever seen
Beardless Simon.
We've had Fact Boi for so long I've forgotten the before times.
actually, they set all of the valve locks to 00000000, the combinations were different but this meant a brute force approach would take far too long to ever risk actually launching a missile unintentionally.
I always pictured two general looking guys with big gold key necklaces that turn them at the same time then hit a big ass red button that says "Reset world" on it
Im pretty sure the code was 7355608
Edit: Since I am still getting some comments where people want to quote other articles this video is based on, that keep repeating the same mistakes....Blair has come out and said they made a lot of mistakes.
tomnichols.net/blog/2013/12/20/update-were-u-s-nuclear-codes-set-to-zero-bruce-blair-responds/
Blair NEVER said the letters he wrote in 1977, were the reason the all 0 code was changed. ONE, because it wasn't changed, that process was removed all together, TWO because why would Congrss change something they don't have the direct power to change, based on the word of a low ranking officer who had recently resigned his commission in the Air Force?
Blair does say in the 2004 report that started all of this,
Blair says, "After leaving the Air Force in 1974, I pressed the service, initially by letters addressed to it and then through congressional intermediaries, to consider a range of terrorist scenarios in which these locks could serve as crucial barriers against the unauthorized seizure of launch control over Minuteman missiles. In 1977, I co-authored (with Garry Brewer) an article (click here to view) entitled “The Terrorist Threat to World Nuclear Programs” in which I laid out the case for taking this threat more seriously and suggesting remedial measures including, first and foremost, activating those McNamara locks that apparently he and presidents presumed had already been activated."
But also says in the above article I linked,
"McNamara thought he had prevailed, but learned from me in 2004 (the date of my article that you wrongly dated 1994) that SAC had set the combination codes to eight zeros and got away with it until 1977"
Here is the link to the orginal 2004 paper Blair wrote.
www.globalzero.org/files/bb_keeping_presidents_in_the_nuclear_dark_episode_1_the_case_of_the_missing_permissive_action_links_02.11.2004.pdf
Orginal Post:
This video is FULL of wrong info. Frist off, the article came out in 2004, the additional all 0 launch code was added in 1962 and stopped in the early 80s (sorry 1977 as a result of a total change to the process). So NO they didn't only change it at the time of the article, in fact in the orginal article he states it had long since been changed and is for more complex. Second, the all 0 "launch code" was added at the order of the White House as an added step to the already secure launch system and at the objection of SAC and the Joint Chiefs. So SAC Command, set it as all 0s to comply with the order but not add the needless extra step. The launch authorization code was NEVER all 0s and could only be sent down by the President's authorization of release of nuclear weapons, down the chain and was always verified before being entered. Then the 2 launch officers who are guarded by a TON of security and being several stories underground had to enter the codes and turn the dual launch keys. These officers always had Top Secret security clearance which required a TON of background checks. ALSO all individuals related to the launch from the launch officer to the top side Security had to be on what is called a PRP, or Personal Reliably Program. Where EVERY aspect of their life was watched and checked. If you so much as needed to take a Tylenol, you could be pulled off for possible impairment. If you ran up a large debt with a credit card, you would be removed..ect.
Bottom line...This all 0 code, was a needless added step, to an already VERY secure system and FAR from the only thing required to launch a nuke.
very, very true.
you wouldnt want to only have 1 layer of defence on something as important as a weapon of mass destruction, you should have 6 layers of defence, as it would be very hard to crack into
Tomo Rainns exactly! I didn't want to go into detail as to the full current or past security measures, but you are on target. There is no way someone can make into a silo and launch an armed weapon. Even if the whole crew wanted to, they can't without the armming codes. They may be able to manually launch a missile, but it wouldn't be armed to detonate the nuke.
...and before anyone asks...Yes I'm retired Air Force and was an expert in Physical Security and Force Protection.
my pleasure to share my opinion
Dad_a_Monk I think you didnt pay full attention to this article
Don-Fugn Worry-AboutIt First, which article? The ones they list screwed up a lot, because even the orginal "report" was full of BS by someone trying to get attention and make it like he was releasing a secret that wasn't alreay known, maybe not well know, but far from some revelation. I did this for a living too, and this step in security that he attempted to make out as a huge risk, because it was all 0s, was nothing more that an added unnecessary extra step ordered by the White House it was unneeded and only got it the way of an already VERY secure system.
Awesome as usual!! Thank you Simon 👍
Since this is all Classified information you don't really know if you're correct. Anyone who knows you're wrong can't tell you why.
B. Eder video is actually very wrong complete lie honestly B ]
This was all confirmed by Daniel Ellsberg in his book "Doomsday Machine." While an employee of the Rand Corporation he was tasked by the Commander in Chief Pacific Forces (CincPac) to study nuclear security in the Pacific theater. His observations are first hand and frankly, make me wonder how we ever survived the era. Also, back then, nuclear weapons were carried by fighter bombers which could drop individually. Ellsberg also describes how nuclear target planning back then did not distinguish between the U.S.S.R. and China. Commies were Commies and a launch would have been against both countries as targeting data did not take nationality into consideration.
Misinformation can be a good way to find a leaker.
What about 7355608?
bomb code ez
I would use 867 5309 and just call it the Tutone code.
Jack Fredricks I would make it 8008123 and call it boob code. Because 8008 in a calculator looks like boob
+CamoB2002 Just have it as 5318008. Because that spells "Boobies" upside down.
Terrorists would win
"Zero-Zero-Zero Destruct Zero." - Cap. Kirk / Star Trek
Someone say my name?
From the spelling I would say Chekov did. "Cap-tin!"
Hah hah, yeah... sad how I only had 15 characters the first time I used this username
I bet the codes now are something brilliant like 00000001.
Probably 12345678.
I’m unwell today and spending it in bed. I’ve just been catching up on my ‘Simon Whistler ‘ 5 hours so far.
Thank you Simon, your videos are always so interesting.
8 zeros! That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
A new settlement needs your help!
People in the USAF are airmen. Not soldiers. We aren't the army
XoREALDEALoX by USAF he means United States Armed Forces
NateSarah Goers intercontinental ballistic missiles aren't a joint operation. It's strictly Air Force. So for him to call it armed forces would also be wrong.
No, I'm pretty sure he means the Ukulele, Saxophone, And Flute orchestra.
XoREALDEALoX nice photo
Prior to watching the video and reading the topic, my 1st assumption is that they changed the code.
same lol
Fedora Doge yeah now it's: password
I heard it was guest
I, too, would worry about a man named *General Power* having the ability to randomly launch nukes. 😛
Certainly true.
Well, and you all really believe that a Nuclear Counter-Attack is dependent on an eight-digit Code, the simultaneous turning of two Keys and two Soldiers? Interesting.
I keep thinking that somewhere there is a relay that has to close..forget the code.
Also i just found out a settlement needs your help let me mark it on your map.
Ryan Clemons1 go***mn you preston garvey!!!
the new code 'Letsbuildawall123'
tehmonsterinyourbed
The new code might be alphanumeric?
+tehmonsterinyourbed
The same way a phone number can have words.
Schwarzer Ritter
did he delete his comment? I cant see it anymore.
Keir Mathieson
I still see it.
NO IT'S "MEXICANRAPIST123"
another settlement needs your help
Duncetron glad i wasnt the only one that thought of fallout 4 when i saw minutemen
Duncetron Hahahahahq
hulabulia1329 *minutemen*
I really love your videos, I certainly learn quite a bit whilst watching them. :) Even though every time I hear your name, I always think about the famous American painting "Whistler's Mother." lol
You missed out a few facts: those minuteman silos had two codes in place. First code was received from the command and used in the normal procedure for lunch, the second one was deemed secret (fixed code for every silo) - only to be used in case of emergency. As the name indicates lunch procedure was to be carried out within a minute. For the 70;s technology way the dials were designed made it very time-consuming to put the code in place. It was, in fact, an eight digit hexadecimal code (imagine something of format like modern MAC addresses) that had to be set by gauge rotation. After many drills people on top decided it took way too much time to put the emergency codes in (or as a matter of fact maybe the primary ones as well - that I don't know) so they were all reset to 00 00 00 ... etc. - Upon opening the emergency code envelope (in real life scenario) operating team would realize the code is already valid (as all dials were set to zero by default) thus requiring only no effort on that part. The idea (or the afterward excuse) was that "no one would ever think the code would be all zeros" and it wasn't a common knowledge among the soldiers as well.
It's great that everyone's an expert on nuclear weapons! So you personally must have performed these duties to have such vast knowledge? Are you sure that these are the correct procedures for "LUNCH"?
@@tubescorpion Unfortunately this uplink person is full of crap too. I can’t speak to Titan, ILCS, or Mod, but I can speak to MMII/CDB having spent 4 years on missile combat crew duty. The enable codes were transmitted in a EAM from National Command Authortity. Day to day the thumbwheel switches in all LCCs were set to P7s which had no significance other than a common starting place for all LCCs. SAC could have just as easily told us to set them to some other random setting day to day. About the only thing this jackass who did this video got right was the SAC emblem.
The numbers Mason! What do they mean!?
1 year later and no reply, what a shame, was a great story line won't forget bo1
Fuck, the irony of this. My name is Mason and the only person who commented has the name of my only brother. Yes I get the BO1 reference aswell.
2 years later and we still see no relevant answer to the question.
Your comment will live on in history!
thank god no one tried to crack the code using an automated brute force hacking system, It would literally get the code on the first guess!
it's not a computer it's a manual system that's used to put in the code
Only a moron would hook a Nuclear warhead up to the internet lmao
if you want to see what would happen if it was hooked up to the internet sort of go watch the movie wargames
+Boney McBonerton Unless you decided to start your brute force hacking from 00000001. lol.
Airmen not soldiers.
the amount of bullets we dodged during the cold war is just fucking astonishing, i am genuinely surprised were all still alive
It's actually a smart code because nobody thinks about the simple 00000000 code as an nuclear launch code.
Enemies wouldn't guess them, they would run a brute-force attack back then on the digital sequence...the first number it would try would be 00000000. That wasn't an actual launch sequence though. It was a place holder so the actual code was not left primed in the pad.
Actually the chances of anyone guessing 00000000 is the same as any other combination. 38928374 for example. Still 10^8=100,000,000.
Trivial for a modern computer with the right interface. And if you take a random walk with the right feedback you'll hit the right code statistically within 50,000,000 tries.
Absolute BS. Was a missile man in the 70s, early 80s. You don't know what you are talking about.
I was a Titan II MCCC at McConnell from 1979 to 1983.
"0" was never on the coded Switch input panel.
Totally agree. I was a missile man in the 70's and early 80's, working with nuclear warheads. This guy hasn't a clue what he's talking about.
Daniel Ellsberg explains (in a *bit* more detail) what this guy is talking about in "The Doomsday Machine." Eric Schlosser also discusses it (again, in a *bit* more detail) in "Command and Control." The facts do not square with this explanation, but if I recall correctly they are just as shocking.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#The_Doomsday_Machine
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control:_Nuclear_Weapons,_the_Damascus_Accident,_and_the_Illusion_of_Safety
@@dodo1opps P7? I thought Titan II had the BV lock which did have 0s. I know the code wasn't all zeros and that this video is BS, though.
@Jim Allen They were changed annually.
That's the combination an idiot uses on their luggage!
malcolm taylor "1 2 3 4 5? That's the combination I have on my luggage!"
Nice xD Loved that movie
malcolm taylor SPACEBALLS!
Didn't realise that the Minutemen had so much fire power :o guess helping all those settlements for Preston payed off ;)
I knew I'd see a comment like this
'General Power' once had the ability to launch nukes and start a world ending war?
Is this fucking captain planet? That is such an obvious villain name.
As long as nobody knows that, it's still as secure as any other 8 digit number. They also have three factor authentication, requiring two physical keys along with the code.
There is no reason to call for authorization, the alarm comes in and a teletype message. The missile control room personnel take the message and first they check it against the codes in the lock box. Then they match it in a binder to a code, and then swap as there are two binders. Once confirmed, they get keys from lockbox and insert, turn and hold. It takes two people to launch the missiles as the control boxes are out of arms reach to make it impossible for one person because the keys have to be turned simultaneously and held for 3 seconds. There are videos about this all over the place. Plenty of old training videos that the military made because the threat was very real in the 50's, 60's, 70's into the mid to late 80's.
oh no I think i just found a binge channel. sometimes i find a good channel and im stuck on youtube for hours.
holdmybeer Are you still on the channel?
I LOVE YOU he is weak
Now we changed it to 3 digits and they are 666.
lol its not, I tried it already.
+BLACKMETALWILL You know that wasnt funny as you sound like 12 year old.
MrDerpy Yeah I'll take maturity advice from someone with a name like derpy _after_ I get my very own copy of minecraft.
+Furry OG/s
If you are about to destroy the whole world you better feel edgy about it right?
The launch code is 12345? Amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
No one would walk into a silo and expect that to be the code.
"SAC" is pronounced "sack".
New password, "00000001"
09112001
What american would ever forget this horror of a date... 9 november 2001.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's September, not November lol.
HypticHypezz Day-Month-Year, smallest-middle-biggest. LOGIC
SirJMO I know, but you still stated "9 november 2001" So, even though it should be Day-Month-Year, you still stated it happened in November.
HypticHypezz should be?
Wow. LGM-30 Minuteman missile of 300-500 kiloton yield multiplied by about 1000 silos in the US is about 300,000 - 500,000 kiloton nuclear yield... all with a launch code of 00000000. Brilliant.
what was the code again ? i forgot...
8 Zeroes, Do i need to tattoo you with it?
we've tried tattooing people with numbers. That didn't end well.
Paul Moadibe it was 42069345
and psn gets hacked.
McNamara, that name never gets spoken around without some controversy.
Wow... I have no idea how you are always able to get the best information possible for your videos ..but somehow you do... How many people/reporters out there are able to report on a story and are able to get nuclear weapons launch codes...but what's truly amazing....is that you have no fear when you made that code public .. Could you please explain how/ why you have no fear to publish that information... Thanks in advance for your reply
At least it wasnt "Password"
Of course they wouldn't be so dumb as to use that as a password. It's "Swordfish".
Very well, the Password is....: One..., (..1, 1!), Two..., (2, 2!), Three..., (3, 3!), Four..., (4,4!), ...............Five..., (5, 5!)
-So the combination is... 1234.....5?
(nods)
- That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life!!! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!!!
---What's the password
-1,2,3,4,5,!
----That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Space balls
amazing reference. bless you
Lol Thanks for the space balls ref...One of my favorite movies.
My childhood
"I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes."
;~)°
oh no guys they found the video now its 11111111
Another reason it was set to the 0s was because most Password Breakers would start at 00000001, so it would never reach the correct password.