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Hacking in 1980 vs Hacking in 2024
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I've seen some statements that this was apocryphal.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/21/air-force-swears-our-nuke-launch-code-was-never-00000000/
Though you could argue -- since there was a point in time prior to PALs where there was no authorization system at all -- that a very functionally-similar state existed prior to the implementation of those codes.