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One Password Attempt Ever

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One Password Attempt Ever	comment	Some top secret information would be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands. In order to make sure that this doesn't happen, the system designers make it so that if even one wrong password attempt is tried, then the person will be locked out forever, or worse, a Self-Destruct Mechanism will trigger destroying the encrypted data. In reality, this system is fraught with problems. For one, the people who know the password could accidentally hit the wrong key (and they're bound to if they have to type in the password on a regular basis), meaning that eventually they will lock themselves out by accident. Also if any of their enemies want the data to be inaccessible, all they have to do is get access to the machine and purposely type in the wrong password to disable or destroy the data. As indicated by the Real Life examples below, actual implementations of this type of security allow a limited number of failed attempts in order to prevent accidental lock-out. Often paired with Highly Visible Password to play up the drama of whether or not the heroes typed in the one and only correct password, and to allow the heroes to be extra sure that they didn't mistype the password. Contrast with Password Slot Machine. Not to be confused with The Password Is Always "Swordfish", where you only need one attempt because it's obvious to guess (if you're lucky it may overlap, though).
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_1af1f707	comment	In Eagle Eye, Agent Perez tries to get into a federal employee's laptop. She enters an incorrect password, prompting the machine to shut down, and federal agents show up at her location moments later.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_3af1288c	comment	SiN sometimes has things that activate on an incorrect password entry, but most of them allow retries or resetting the trap. The only one that allows one attempt is trying to disarm the third nuke (on hard difficulty) in the Secret Level Missile Silo where failure releases a toxic gas.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation report SCP-093 ("Red Sea Object"). In the "Violet" test the Foundation team tries to log into a computer they find. The first attempt fails, after which the screen prints a message that the maximum number of attempts has been exceeded and the PC turns itself off.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_43c21f1a	comment	In the Thunderbirds Are Go episode "Space Race", the Thunderbirds are attempting to deactivate a space-based automated weapon left over from an old war. It was built with a deactivation code, but they get only one attempt to use it, because any error will cause the weapon to assume the worst and destroy itself, the person entering the code, and anything else that happens to be within range.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_49340431	comment	Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Played for Laughs. In one episode, Terry tries to log into Captain Holt's computer, so he tries guessing the password, only for it to tell him that he's reached the maximum number of attempts after one try. Justified, as this aligns with Captain Holt's comically meticulous nature.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_518b056d	comment	The Da Vinci Code has this when Sophie and Langdon need to access a Swiss Bank Account. The terminal that calls up the safety-deposit box warns them to be extra careful because not only will it eat their card if they get the password wrong after one attempt, but the entire system will shut down.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_6cd6c4e8	comment	iZombie episode "Twenty Sided, Die" has Liv and Clive discover and try to access a computer setup. Upon entering an improper password the whole system went haywire.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_7353a7bd	comment	In Dynamite Headdy, after the credits have rolled, a screen appears where you could enter a 4-digit password on a keypad in order to face the True Final Boss. You only get one shot at entering the password (which changes for every playthrough). Completing the basketball minigames reveals the password number by number.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_74c5b2f3	comment	In the Nintendo Wars series, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (Advance Wars: Dark Conflict in the British translation), The Heroes come across an underground bunker that has supplies they desperately need. The problem is, the bunker cannot be breached and they can only try the password twice. First, Brenner/O'Brian tries his military access code. When that is rejected, the team is left with one guess for a ten-digit password. Luckily Will/Ed had been talking to Isabella/Catleia an she had been muttering a ten-digit number over and over. With no other option, they enter the code. When the doors open, the team is left baffled at how she could've possibly know that code.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_7f49dfdb	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, Atsuro's friend 10-Bit has important information on his COMP, but dies before he can tell him the password. The COMP is set to lock up if the wrong password is entered, and the only thing you know is it's a four-digit number. The password turns out to be based on 10-Bit's name, being the maximum value of a ten-bit unsigned binary number, 1023.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_97e27637	comment	In Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, there is only one chance to give the password needed to gain control of HAL, an AI brainwashing people to cause destruction and give him access to other supercomputers.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_9df1f45c	comment	In The Fly II, Bartok Industries scientists attempt to activate Martin's telepods when he escapes. This is actually a case of Two Password Attempts Ever, because when they give the wrong password at the computer's prompt of WHAT'S THE MAGIC WORD?, it gives them another chance, telling them, WARNING: INCORRECT RESPONSE WILL ACTIVATE TAPEWORM. Bartok understands that only Martin knows or would know the "magic word."
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_a61bda23	comment	Life Is Strange manages to subvert the trope. While most cases where you need a password or electronic PIN have a limit on the amount of guesses (as you'd expect), you can simply reverse time and try as many times as you like.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun supplement The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America. In certain high security areas, cardreader security access devices are programmed to signal an alarm the first time they receive an invalid code.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_bcf04dc4	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984), entering the wrong password to open the case containing the atomic vector plotter on the Vogon ship will make the case explode, killing you.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "42", the Doctor and Martha end up on a ship under lockdown operating on a system like this. To unlock each door they have to answer a seemingly simple trivia question someone on the ship would know, or else it stays locked and they can't retry. Unfortunately, thanks to crew rotations the people who set the original questions aren't on board anymore, the ship is in the process of falling into a sun, and Martha isn't exactly a trivia expert...
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest. A more realistic version occurs in "Dead Reckoning". Not knowing how to defuse a bomb, Finch instead tries to hack the mobile phone being used as a detonator. He has five possible combinations for the unlock code, but the phone will lock him out after the first three.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_ccf875f7	comment	The first episode of Criminal Minds featured a computer security system called "Deadbolt Defense" which would destroy the data on a laptop after five incorrect password attempts. It's activated after the local cop enters a password on a sticky note on the laptop, so that might have been an activation code for Deadbolt Defense, rather than just a mistyped password in general. Amusingly enough, Garcia's introduction is telling Morgan that there's absolutely nothing she can do to help, he'll have to profile the password. Yet, for someone with this type of security and something important to hide (a video feed of a kidnapped woman), the actual password is apparently "entersandman," his favorite song, no capitals, numbers, or special characters. Apparently he thought Deadbolt Defense was enough?
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS supplement Warehouse 23. Anyone trying to log on to the Warehouse's computer remotely must input two separate passwords. If the second password is incorrect the computer assumes that an intrusion is taking place and doesn't give the intruder another chance.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice: Lampshaded when Qui-Gon tries to guess his evil ex-apprentice Xanatos' password and muses that someone as arrogant and untrusting as Xanatos would have the computer set to trigger an alarm if even one incorrect attempt were entered. Fortunately for Qui-Gon, Xanatos' password is laughably guessable.
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One Password Attempt Ever / int_f74b5f80	comment	In the Babylon 5 episode "Secrets of the Soul", Dr. Franklin assures the Hyachs that the medical information that they have provided is secure because it is triple-encrypted and even one wrong password attempt would destroy the data altogether. One has to wonder what he'd do if he himself mistyped any of those three passwords and accidentally destroyed the data.
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One Password Attempt Ever	processingCategory2	Discredited Trope
One Password Attempt Ever	processingCategory2	Insecurity System
Eagle Eye / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
The Fly II / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
The Da Vinci Code / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro (Manga) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
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GURPS (Tabletop Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
Avalon (Video Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
Devil Survivor (Video Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
Dynamite Headdy (Video Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
Nintendo Wars (Video Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
SiN (1998) (Video Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) (Video Game) / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever

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