Passwords used to be something that only kids with a tree house or CIA agents needed. Could you have imagined 10 years ago that you would have so many places where you would need passwords? Doubtful, unless you thought you would grow up to be a spy.

With the need for so many passwords it’s hard to keep them sorted out – of course, everyone tells you not to use something that is too personal that someone might be able to guess. So, here’s a list potential passwords from, mostly, science fiction movies.

Star Trek

• 16309 : Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan: The prefix number for Reliant’s combination code.
• 17346721476C3278977763T732V731171888732476789764376 : From Star Trek: TNG, “Brothers”. This is the password that Data uses – while imitating Picard’s voice – to lock out the Enterprise’s computer. Update from comment below: The number listed above is what is written on the computer display. But Data actually spoke this password:

  173467321476c32789777643t732v731171888732476789764376 – thanks Karl the Pagan!

• aaaDistructA : Star Trek: The Search for Spock: Kirk’s distruct code for the Enterprise.

The Matrix Trilogy

• B166ER : From the Animatrix: This is the first robot to murder a human and get the war between man and machine started.
• 2-19-96 13:24:18 : The date and time that the movie starts.
• 312-555-0690 : Trinity’s phone number – you have to read the script for this one.
• room1313 : The room where Neo meets Morpheus.
• room303 : The room Trinity is in at the beginning of the movie.
• room101 : The apartment Neo lives in inside the Matrix.

X-Files

• MN1068-06 : In Redux II (5.03) Mulder finds Scully’s file in the basement of the Pentagon. Inside is the vile that contains the microchip that cures Scully’s cancer.
• trustno1 : Little Green Men (2.01) Mulder’s password is ‘trustno1′, the final words spoken by Deep Throat in the first season’s closer.
• 202-555-1030 : Call this number to for the cure for cancer.
• 1013-113 : Gibson Praise’s FBI file number.
• QUEEQUEG0925 : In the episode Trust No 1 Scully’s screen-name is QUEEQUEG0925. Queequeq was Scully’s dog in Season 3, which was eaten in ‘Quagmire’. 09/25 is the birthdate of Gillian Anderson’s daughter, Piper.
• Season 9 Credits : :  The opening credits for season 9 displayed a list of fan usernames and anagrams from character names. Visit the X-Files UK fan site for a complete list.

Contact

• W9GFO : Ellie Arroway’s HAM radio callsign
• 18h 36m 56.2s / +36d 47m 1.291s : Right ascension/declination for Vega
• 4.4623GHZ : Hydrogen x Pi – the frequency that the message was being transmitted on

Terminator

• 08/29/1997 : This is the date of Judgement Day according to the first two Terminator movies.
• 07/24/2004 : The date for Judgement Day in Terminator 3.

War Games

• CPE 1704 TKS : The launch code that Joshua “figures out” at the end of the movie.
• 399-2364 : The phone number that David used to call the Norad WOPR computer.
• RONCTTLA : The launch message given at the beginning of the movie.
• 220040DL : The authentication code for the launch message given to the officers in the silo.
• DLG2209TVX : The launch code given to the officers in the beginning of the movie
• PUBLIC, HANDLE, EFFORT, Points, Double, Pencil : The passwords to the school’s computer that David uses to change his grades.
• J08 9515 VNS : The launch code on the panel in the silo.
• 65050 : The high score on the video game that David is playing (I can’t remember the name of that game to save my life.)
• June 23, 1973: 062373 : The date reported as Falken’s faked death
• 7KQ201 : McKittrick’s username
• Joshua : And of course, the backdoor password that David figures out just to log into the WOPR computer

Sneakers

• SETEC ASTRONOMY : Anagram for: TOO MANY SECRETS
• 46-99402 : This is the first line from the movie. It’s the “ABA Source ID” for the Republican Parties checking account.
• 53-01138 : The “ABA Receive ID” that the money is being deposited into which belongs to the Black Panthers.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

• 90216 : The “Emergency Protocol” that is broadcast to call Sky Captain
• h1-1-od : The call letters on the side of Sky Captain’s plane. When seen reflected in the water it spells out “polly”.

Miscellaneous

• THX1138 : The name of George Lucas’ first film.
• Cell2187 : Star Wars IV A New Hope: The Death Star cell in which Princess Leah is being held.
• 9906753 : Raiders of the lost Ark: The number that is stenciled on the box which the Ark is placed in the government warehouse.
• AE35 : 2001: A Space Odyssey: The name of the antena that HAL reports has malfunctioned.
• LV-426 : Alien/Aliens: The planet where all hell brakes loose.
• Swordfish : Swordfish: The title of the movie comes from the classic 1932 Marx Brothers’ film, Horse Feathers (1932). “Swordfish” was the password for entering the speakeasy – one of the movie’s funniest scenes – and became the archetypal password (at least for older movie-goers).
• Mellon : “Speak Friend and enter”, From LOTR/Fellowship.
• Tron – Flynn’s password when logging into the computer terminal is: reindeer flotilla.
• Tron - Alan’s password is: TRONJA307020

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