NCA communications were hacked. The codes themselves are safe. They are produced on a single air gapped machine, printed and sealed inside the same room. Codes are passed from the room in tamper boxes through a hole, logged and immediately passed to be directly delivered to the various sites. All codes are authenticated and manually entered. It is one of the few things that isn't on a network infrastructure.
Wait hold up. Our nuclear launch codes are hacked? Why don't, you know, we change then?
NCA communications were hacked. The codes themselves are safe. They are produced on a single air gapped machine, printed and sealed inside the same room. Codes are passed from the room in tamper boxes through a hole, logged and immediately passed to be directly delivered to the various sites. All codes are authenticated and manually entered. It is one of the few things that isn't on a network infrastructure.