What War Games teaches us about security (Part 2)
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Posted on July 4, 2012 by
This is the second part of my posts on what the 1983 move War Games can teach us about security. Here, I want to talk about the part of the movie where David Lightman (Matthew Broderick’s character) realizes that he almost started World War III and is in the process of throwing away any evidence that he hacked into NORAD. At that moment, the NORAD supercomputer WOPR calls David. Later in the movie, McKittrick (Dabney Coleman’s character) says it’s impossible for the WOPR to call someone. Well, he was obviously wrong, because the WOPR did call out. Fail! Which brings us to our second lesson. (more…)