WarGames

In this blog, i'll talk about WarGames a movie directed by John Badham in 1983. This movie was seen in class, and i think is really interesting and funny movie.

It is about a young man, like fifteen or sixteen years old, that knows some computer tricks. With his knowledge, he is capable to enter the server of his school and change its grades. He knows a girl, a friend of him, who was his criminal partner, that at first she thougth it was like a joke, but then she notice that it was for real. After that, the boy was trying to get some info by making hacks with the phone. I dont remember but i think he also get numbers of bank accouts so  he get the access to them. But in one of his investigations he got an information of a game, but for it he need to get the password of the user, so he started to get info to guess the pass. So after a lot of investigation, he tried to input the name of the son of the user. So when he got the access he connect to the server and found an strategy game. That was a game where you have to launch rockets around the world and win the war. But what he doesnt knows is that he connects to a supercomputer of the government that was made for tactical predictions for a real war. So when he begins to play the game, he was really starting a war.

It is very interesting to see how the poor security of years ago and the evolution of it. Just to think that a boy can access to confidential information by just to know some tricks. I am more relaxed to the systems security of nowadays. But not completely secure becase thare are still some ways to hack a system.

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