When Hollywood Gets it Right: Security Lessons from 1983 Wargames, still relevant today

War Games, released in June of 1983, is an 80's movie classic starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy and is one of the first movies to depict hacking/phreaking in the early 80s.

Set during the Cold War, it is about how a Seattle teenager, “David Lightman”, who accidentally finds a back door into NORAD's super computer **WOPR**, while trying to hack into a computer games company.

Even though the movie is 39 years old, many of the security lessons still …

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