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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas anyone seen Lincoln Chafee’s Facebook password?
Boston Globe:Former Rhode Island Republican senator and independent-turned-Democratic governor Lincoln Chafee announced a run for president Wednesday evening. But first a more pressing matter.
According to Chafees spokeswoman, Debbie Rich, the campaign was unable to recover the log-in information to the Facebook page he used as governor. Chafees wife took to Facebook last week in an attempt to reach former staff who had managed the page.
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Has anyone seen Lincoln Chafee’s Facebook password? (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jun 2015
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)1. Try DINO. n/t
Wilms
(26,795 posts)2. I sure hope the handling of electronic media doesn't become an issue for our candidates.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)3. I know! I know!
It's Pa$$word1
Do not ask me how I know that, though. It's all secret and stuff.
madamesilverspurs
(15,809 posts)4. How about "unniversity" --
really?
Wilms
(26,795 posts)5. Well, ya gotta cut her some slack.
They are, after all, former Republicans.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)6. So, we are supposed to trust you with nuclear launch codes
when you can't keep track of a Facebook password.
Stick a fork in him, he's done in record time.
brooklynite
(94,745 posts)7. If memory serves, the password for the launch codes was "111111".....
...for about thirty years.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)9. Of course it was...
brooklynite
(94,745 posts)10. Correction: it was "00000000"
Dial 00000000 for Armageddon. USs top secret launch nuclear launch code was frighteningly simple
For nearly 20 years, the secret code to authorize launching U.S. nuclear missiles, and starting World War III, was terrifyingly simple and even noted down on a checklist.
From 1962, when John F Kennedy instituted PAL encoding on nuclear weapons, until 1977, the combination to fire the devastating missiles at the height of the Cold War was just 00000000.
This was chosen by Strategic Air Command in an effort to make the weapons as quick and as easy to launch as possible
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515598/Launch-code-US-nuclear-weapons-easy-00000000.html
For nearly 20 years, the secret code to authorize launching U.S. nuclear missiles, and starting World War III, was terrifyingly simple and even noted down on a checklist.
From 1962, when John F Kennedy instituted PAL encoding on nuclear weapons, until 1977, the combination to fire the devastating missiles at the height of the Cold War was just 00000000.
This was chosen by Strategic Air Command in an effort to make the weapons as quick and as easy to launch as possible
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515598/Launch-code-US-nuclear-weapons-easy-00000000.html
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)11. Well, at least it was an apt code
for when you are destroying the world.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)8. Lincoln Gaffee