Talk:Hacking Turrets/@comment-31617425-20170408221238

The fact that the turrets have no kind of remote-off mechanism other than going through XERXES is a staggering design flaw. At the absolute minimum they should have a timed "deadman switch" that requires at least two crewmembers to reset it by authenticating through the central control they had to bypass - ie; two people voting to say "yes, keep them active" - or automatically turn off after a period of time. What they went with instead is akin to giving the President the ability to launch nuclear weapons all by himself.

It ended with equally predictable results - massive friendly-fire casualties and actually helping the threat at hand after an electronic 'mutiny'.