There's also the episode where they find the guy who needs to check his stocks, and Picard explains that in the future people behave like adults.

Sometimes they do. In the episodes where they de/activate the self-destruct sequence, the captain has to give their authorization code. The fact that they have to give it verbally in front of everyone isn't ideal though.

The episode where Moriarty came about was because Geordi tried to vibe code an opponent for Data and the ships computer just made a sentient hologram.

They did require admin logins, but they also implemented a bimonthly password change, so there were post-its on all the monitors.

I had a thought a while ago on why everything goes wrong for starfleet. All their officers are vibe coding. The warp core is vibe coded. The weapons are vibe coded. The holodeck is vibe coded. It's why the safety protocols are always getting turned off.

It's made obvious when they design the Runabout in Voyager.

After WWIII, the writings of Richard Stallman became the guiding principles of computing.

They do, tho. It's just we usually see events through the lens of characters that have admin access. Or are badass enough to hack them when they don't. Or both, like that episode where Data goes rogue and sets the longest lockout password ever.

"Sudo su"

"Goddammit"

In some versions of Star Trek, I'm sure they've said that the first few presses somebody makes on a console is them logging in.

The systems were designed similar to military installations contemporary to when they were written, with the expectation that unauthorized people were not supposed to have access to certain areas in the first place.

Of course, now it seems stupid. My car has more security just using my phone as the key. They could easily have used their badges as credentials at the very least. Realistically, with their tech, the computer should just know everybody's identities and everybody's locations at all times, even without badges, and should be able to control access using that information.

But just imagine if they used that sort of tech. Every time somebody was in a prison cell, the computer would be analyzing what they were doing, and alert security the moment they started trying to break out, for example. So many episodes would end before they started.

Zapp Brannigan: IT security is for sissies!

All the love for the dolls here, I just had to get this dumb and slightly altered Futurama quote out of my brain after reading the meme.

What really cracked me up recently was this screenshot, being a musician and an Ableton user myself, and again, all the love for the dolls!

I like to think technology is so advanced that security features are impossible to implement because penetrating them is trivial.

These episodes came out in the late 80s and early 90s, when cybersecurity wasn’t really even a “thing”. Yet, even then, when I was seven or eight or nine, I knew enough about computer programming to implement, at the very least, passwords before executing certain commands.

It was hard, sometimes, not to think of these people as fucking idiots

Jake gets pissed off at Nog because for some reason they don't have headphones anymore.

IIRC at least one ship-threatening holodeck malfunction was the result of enhancements made by the Binars during a system overhaul, which is like Google having unsuperviised contractors work on their live site. Apparently the Federation has no concept of dev/test/prod environments.

The most unrealistic thing about Star Trek is that the engineering team are in charge of the computer. That's why nothing never works, those guys hate the concept of passwords.

the borg also has no security on thier ships, unless they start seeing them as assimilate or as a threat.

Databases.

Maybe all of their computers were compromised by the government on purpose like ours.

Examples?