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From: neutron@hpfclg.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Prefix numbers, or how to destroy a
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 15:23:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 15:23:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfclg!neutron    Jun  5 11:23:00 1985

>> I refer of course to Kirk's using the Reliant's 4 or 5 digit prefix
>> number to lower her shields.  Assuming that data transmission and ship
>> scanning is almost instantaneous (it seemed so in the movie), then it
>> won't take more than a minute or two to figure a ship's prefix number
>> and then ...  BANG!

Ah, but you underestimate the Federation programmers.  You see, if a bad
prefix code is received, no more prefix codes (valid or not) are accepted
for the next hour (and all sorts of alarms go off).

				-Jack Applin
				{hplabs,csu-cs,hp-pcd,nwuxd}!hp-dcd!jack